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See Jack, 8 (c).

Characterized by allomerism.

Having the number of floral organs unequal, as four petals and six stamens.

Composed of, or having, two parts of each kind.

Ephemeral. [R.] Burke.

Gathered or formed into a ball or round mass. [Obs.] Blount.

Consisting of seven parts, or having the parts in sets of sevens. Gray.

r indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homoemorphous, but heteromerous.

In six parts; in sixes.

Having the main artery of the leg parallel with the sciatic nerve; -- said of certain birds.

Innumerable. [Archaic] Milton.

Lasting but one day.

Composed of solitary parts, as a flower with one sepal, one petal, one stamen, and one pistil.

Consisting of a great number of units or individual objects; being many; as, a numerous army. Such and so numerous was their chivalry. Milton.

Having the parts in eights; as, an octamerous flower; octamerous mesenteries in polyps.

Having few members in each set of organs; as, an oligomerous flower.

Excessively numerous; too many.

Divided into, or consisting of, five parts; also, arranged in sets, with five parts in each set, as a flower with five sepals, five petals, five, or twice five, stamens, and five pistils.

Having many parts or members in each set. Gray.

Temerarious. [Obs.]