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Thrum :: Thrum (n.) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.

Lodicule :: Lodicule (n.) One of the two or three delicate membranous scales which are next to the stamens in grasses.

Bequeath :: Bequeath (v. t.) To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property.

Monadelphous :: Monadelphous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Monadelphia; having the stamens united in one body by the filaments.

Synomocy :: Synoecious (a.) Having stamens and pistil in the same head, or, in mosses, having antheridia and archegonia on the same receptacle..

Gehenna :: Gehenna (n.) The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell..

Law :: Law (n.) The Jewish or Mosaic code, and that part of Scripture where it is written, in distinction from the gospel; hence, also, the Old Testament..

Semidouble :: Semidouble (a.) Having the outermost stamens converted into petals, while the inner ones remain perfect; -- said of a flower..

Filament :: Filament (n.) A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther..

Chive :: Chive (n.) A filament of a stamen.

Ebionite :: Ebionite (n.) One of a sect of heretics, in the first centuries of the church, whose doctrine was a mixture of Judaism and Christianity. They denied the divinity of Christ, regarding him as an inspired messenger, and rejected much of the New Testament..

Abortive :: Abortive (v.) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc..

Insertion :: Insertion (n.) The condition or mode of being inserted or attached; as, the insertion of stamens in a calyx..

Phyllous :: Phyllous (a.) Homologous with a leaf; as, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils are phyllous organs..

Stammel :: Staminodium (n.) An abortive stamen, or any organ modified from an abortive stamen..

Pin-eyed :: Pin-eyed (a.) Having the stigma visible at the throad of a gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concealed in the tube; -- said of dimorphous flowers. The opposite of thrum-eyed..

Probate :: Probate (v. t.) To obtain the official approval of, as of an instrument purporting to be the last will and testament; as, the executor has probated the will..

Diatessaron :: Diatessaron (n.) A continuous narrative arranged from the first four books of the New Testament.

Female :: Female (a.) Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization..

Synoptist :: Synoptic (n.) One of the first three Gospels of the New Testament. See Synoptist.

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