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pentamerous

adjective as in five

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Thus fig. 38 shows a pentamerous symmetrical flower, with dimerous pistil.

Pentamerous insects are those which have five joints in all their tarsi.

To take an example, the group Pseudostrobus, characterized by pentamerous leaf-fascicles, appears in many systems.

Hydradephaga; -ous: applied to aquatic, predatory pentamerous beetles with filiform antennae: see adephagous.

The Clerid, which M. Latreille has placed in the pentamerous section, vary considerably in the number of their tarsal joints.

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On this page you'll find 6 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pentamerous, such as: quintuple, pentagonal, quinary, quinate, and quinquennial.

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