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GOMPHOSIS

Volume 2 · 49 words · 1771 Edition

anatomy. See Anatomy, p. 148.

Gomphrena, the purple everlasting flower, in botany, a genus of the pentandria digynia class. The calyx consists of three coloured leaves; the nectarium is cylindrical, with ten teeth; and the capsule contains one seed. There are seven species, none of them natives of Britain.