monadelphous
adjective
monadelphous is an adjective meaning “Having all its stamens within a flower fused together at least partly by the filaments” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-N-A-D-E-L-P-H-O-U-S, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does monadelphous mean?
adjective
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Having all its stamens within a flower fused together at least partly by the filaments.
The stamens are monadelphous and are united for more than half their length into an open tube adnate to the petals
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is monadelphous?
Monadelphous appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does monadelphous come from?
From mono- + adelphous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).