noun
- plural of didynamy; a botanical classification of plants having four stamens of unequal length arranged in two pairs
Usage: botany; technical; historical classification system
Examples
- The didynamies class includes many flowering plants with distinctive stamen arrangements.
- Botanists of the 18th century used didynamies as one of their primary classification systems.
- Plants in the didynamies group were recognized by their four stamens of two different lengths.