decagynia 
Deformity 
washed), whitened ; covered with 
an opaque white powder. 
Decagyn’ia (déxa, ten; yur), woman), a 
Linnean artificial order of plants 
with ten pistils; decagyn’ian, 
decag’ynous, having ten styles or 
carpels; decam’erous, decam’erus 
(uépos, a share), intens ; Decan‘dria 
(dvnp, dvdpds, a man), a Linnean 
artificial class, of plants with ten 
stamens; decan’drian, decan’drous, 
-rus, having ten stamens ; decapet’- 
alous, -lus (méradov, a flower-leaf), 
with ten petals; decaphyll’ous, 
(puAAov, a leaf), with ten leaves or 
segments ; decari’nus (dppyv, male), 
Necker’s term for ten stamens and 
one pistil; decasep’alous -lus (+ 
SEPALUM) with ten sepals ; decas- 
perm’al (omépya, a seed), having 
ten seeds. 
decemdent’ate (decem, ten; dens, 
dentis, a tooth), having ten teeth, 
as the capsule of Cerastiwm ; 
decem‘fid (Crozier), decem’fidus 
(fid, the root of fido, I split), ten 
cleft; decemlocula’ris (/oculus, a 
compartment), with ten cells, as an 
ovary. 
decid’uous, -wus (decido, 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. 
dec’linate, declina/tus (Lat. turned 
aside), bent or curved downward or 
forward; decli’ned, directed ob- 
liquely. 
Decoloura’tion, Decolora’tio (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; Decortica’tion, 
stripping off bark. 
decre’asingly pinn’ate, where leaflets 
diminish in size from the base up- 
wards, 
decum’bent, -ens (Lat. reclining), re- 
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clining, but with the summit as- 
cending. 
decur’rent, decur’rens (Lat.), runnin 
down, as when leaves are prolonge 
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, decussa’tus (Lat. divided 
crosswise), in pairs alternately at 
right angles; Decussa’tion, cross- 
ing by pairs of leaves, 
Dédoublement (Fr.), doubling, = 
CHorIsIs. 
Deduplica’tion (Fr. déduplication), 
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 ; defin’itive Nu’cleus, a 
result of the fusion of one nucleus 
each from the micropylar and 
chalazal ends of the embryo sac. 
defix’ed, defic’us (Lat. fastened) = 
immersed. 
deflected, deflex'us (Lat. bent aside), 
bent or turned abruptly down- 
wards; deflexed’, bent outwards, 
the opposite of inflexed ; Deflex’ion, 
turned downwards. 
defio’rate, deflora’tus (Lat.), past the 
flowering state. 
deflow’er, to deprive of flowers. 
defi’uent (Lat. defluens), flowing down. 
defo’liate, defolia’tus (Mid. Lat.), 
having cast its leaves ; Defolia’tion, 
the act of shedding leaves. 
Deforma’tion (deformis, misshapen), a 
malformation or alteration from 
the normal sense ; deformed’, dis- 
figured, distorted ; Deform’ity, De- 
formitas (Lat.), an  unshapely 
organism. 
