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ambigenous

ambigenous adjective: of two kinds or natures.

Adjective

ambigenous (not comparable)

  1. Of two kinds or natures.
    1. Having two natures, like the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine and the inner petaloid.

Origin of ambigenous

From Latin ambō (“both”) + genus (“kind”).

Questions about ambigenous

What does ambigenous mean?
Ambigenous means of two kinds or natures.
What part of speech is ambigenous?
Ambigenous is an adjective.

Words near ambigenous in the dictionary

  1. ambifixes
  2. ambifixing
  3. ambigender
  4. ambigendered
  5. ambigeneric
  6. ambigenous
  7. ambigram
  8. ambigrammatic
  9. ambigrams
  10. ambigu
  11. ambiguate

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