(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:45:05

Am*big"e*nous (#), a. [L. ambo both + genus kind.]

Of two kinds.

Bot.

Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.

 

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