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MONOGYNIA

Volume 7 · 50 words · 1778 Edition

from ἀνοικός "alone," and γυνή "a woman;" the name of the first order or subdivision in the first 13 classes of Linnaeus's sexual method; consisting of plants which, besides their agreement in their classic character, generally derived from the number of their stamens, have only one style, or female organ.