polygam

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

POL'YGAM POLYGAM'IAN, noun [Gr. many, and marriage.] In botany, a plant which bears hermaphrodite flowers, with male or female flowers, or both, not inclosed in the same common calyx, but scattered either on the same plant, or on two or three distinct individuals. POLYGAM'IAN, adjective Producing hermaphrodite flowers, with male or female flowers, or both.
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