Decagynia 



Deformity 



washed), whitened ; covered with 

 an opaque white powder. 



Decagyn'ia (5e*a, ten; ywrj, woman), a 

 Linnean artificial order of plants 

 with ten pistils ; decagyn'ian, 

 decag'ynous, having ten styles or 

 carpels ; decam'erous, decam'erus 

 (/ifyos, a share), in tens ; Decan'dria 

 (bvrip, &v5pbs, a man), a Linnean 

 artificial class, of plants with ten 

 stamens ; decan'drian, decan'drous, 

 rue, having ten stamens ; decapet'- 

 alous, -his (irtTdXov, a flower-leaf), 

 with ten petals; decaphyll'ous, 

 (<f>v\\ov, a leaf), with ten leaves or 

 segments ; decari'nus (appyv, male), 

 Necker's term for ten stamens and 

 one pistil ; decasep'alous -lus (+ 

 SEPALUM) with ten sepals ; decas- 

 perm'al (ffirepfM, a seed), having 

 ten seeds. 



decemdent'ate (decem, ten ; dens, 

 dentis, a tooth), having ten teeth, 

 as the capsule of Cerastium; 

 decem'fid (Crozier), decem'fidus 

 (fid, the root of fido, I split), ten 

 cleft ; decemlocula'ris (loculus, a 

 compartment), with ten cells, as an 

 ovary. 



decid'uous, -uus (decide, I fall down), 

 falling in season, as petals fall 

 after flowering, or leaves in autumn, 

 evergreens excepted ; Decid'uous- 

 ness, the quality of falling once a 

 year. 



declinate, dedina'tus (Lat. turned 

 aside), bent or curved downward or 

 forward; decli'ned, directed ob- 

 liquely. 



Decoloura'tion, Decoloraftio (Lat. ), 

 absence of colour ; decolora'tus 

 (Lat.), discoloured, discharged of 

 colour, colourless. 



decom'pound, decompos'itus (Lat.), 

 several times divided or com- 

 pounded. 



decorti'cated (decorticatio, barking), 

 deprived of bark ; Decortiea'tion, 

 stripping off bark. 



decre'asingly pinn'ate, where leaflets 

 diminish in size from the base up- 

 wards. 



decum'bent, -ens (Lat. reclining), re- 



clining, but with the summit as- 

 cending. 



decur'rent, decur'rens (Lat.), running 

 down, as when leaves are prolonged 

 beyond their insertion, and thus 

 run down the stem; decur'sive, 

 decursi'vus (decursus, a descent) = 

 DECURRENT; decur'sively pin'nate, 

 the leaf seemingly pinnate, but the 

 leaflets decurrent along the petiole. 



decus'sate, decussaftus (Lat. divided 

 crosswise), in pairs alternately at 

 right angles; Decussa'tion, cross- 

 ing by pairs of leaves. 



De"doublement (Fr.), doubling, = 

 CHORISIS. 



Deduplica'tion (Fr. d6duplication), 

 a synonym of the last. 



deferent (defero, I bring down), con- 

 veying anything downward. 



deferred' Shoots, those produced by 

 buds which have remained long 

 dormant. 



definite, defini'tus (definite, pre- 

 cisely), (1) precise ; (2) of a certain 

 number, as of stamens not exceed- 

 ing twenty; (3) applied to in- 

 florescence it means cymose ; ^ In- 

 flores'cence, where the axis ends 

 in a flower ; definitive Nu'cleus, a 

 result of the fusion of one nucleus 

 each from the micropylar and 

 chalazal ends of the embryo sac. 



defix'ed, defix'us (Lat. fastened) = 

 immersed. 



deflect'ed, deflex'us (Lat. bent aside), 

 bent or turned abruptly down- 

 wards ; deflexed', bent outwards, 

 the opposite of in flexed ; Deflexion, 

 turned downwards. 



deflo'rate, defiora'tus (Lat.), past the 

 flowering state. 



deflow'er, to deprive of flowers. 



defl'uent (Lat. deftuens), flowing down. 



defoliate, de/olia'tus (Mid. Lat.), 

 having cast its leaves ; Defoliation, 

 the act of shedding leaves. 



Deforma'tion (deformis, misshapen), a 

 malformation or alteration from 

 the normal sense ; deformed', dis- 

 figured, distorted ; Deformity, De- 

 formitas (Lat.), an unshapely 

 organism. 



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