Home1778 Edition

DIDYNAMIA

Volume 4 · 44 words · 1778 Edition

(from twice, and power), the name of the 14th class in Linnaeus's sexual method; consisting of plants with hermaphrodite flowers, which have four stamina or male organs, two of which are long and two short. See Botany, p. 1292, and Plate LIX. fig. 14.