adelpho-, adelph-, -adelphia, -adelphous (Greek: brother).Adelphi:
The name of a group of buildings in London between the Strand and the Thames, laid out by the four brothers, James, John, Robert, and William Adam and hence called Adelphi; the name of the theater in the vicinity of these buildings, at which a certain type of melodrama was prevalent c. 1882 -1900.
adelphic:
In Botany, having the stamens in a parcel or parcels.
adelphogamy:
1. A form of polyandry in which brothers have a wife, or wives, in common.
2. In zoology, mating of brothers and sisters, as with certain kinds of ants. 3. In botany, fertilization between two different individuals derived vegetatively from the same parent plant. adelpholite:
A Columbate of iron and manganese, found associated with Columbite in Finland.
adelphoparasite:
An organism parasite on a closely related host organism.
adelphophagy:
The fusion of two gametes of the same sex.
adelphotaxis:
1. The tendency of motile cells to assume a particular arrangement, usually a mutual relationship; also adelphotaxy.
2. The mutual attraction between spores after extrusion. adelphous:
1. Living in society or in flocks.
2. In botany, a plant in which the stamens, instead of growing singly, combine by the filaments into one or more bundles. amadelphous:
Living in society or in flocks.
deradelphus:
Conjoined twins with a single head and neck and separate bodies below the thoracic level.
monadelphous:
In botany, a reference to stamens having the filaments united so as to form one bundle.
pentadelphous:
In botany, a reference to stamens that are united by the filaments in five bundles; (of a plant) having the stamens so united.
Philadelphia:
"Brotherly love". City in Pennsylvania (USA) and an ancient city, in Lydia, Asia Minor.
philadelphus:
Loving one's brother.
philadelphy:
Brotherly love.
Polyadelphia:
In botany, plants whose flowers have the stamens united in three or more bundles.
polyadelphous:
In botany, having stamens joined by their filaments into a number of clusters.
synadelphus:
Conjoined twins with a single head, partially united trunk, and four upper and four lower limbs.
triadelphous:
In botany, a plant in which the stamens (filaments) are united into three bundles.
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