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adelphous

adelphous adjective: having coalescent or clustered filaments.

Adjective

adelphous (not comparable)

  1. Having coalescent or clustered filaments.
    • adelphous stamens

adelphous meaning in Tamil

adelphous in Tamil

கற்றையான, கற்றையுள்ள

Origin of adelphous

From Ancient Greek ἀδελφός (adelphós, “brother”) + -ous.

Questions about adelphous

What does adelphous mean?
Adelphous means having coalescent or clustered filaments.
What is adelphous in Tamil?
Adelphous in Tamil is கற்றையான, கற்றையுள்ள. See Adelphous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is adelphous?
Adelphous is an adjective.

Words near adelphous in the dictionary

  1. adelphopoiesis
  2. adelphopoiia
  3. adelphotaxa
  4. adelphotaxon
  5. adelphotaxy
  6. adelphous
  7. adelphy
  8. Adelson
  9. Adelyn
  10. Adelynn
  11. ADEM

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adelphous (page history and authors); adelphous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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