adjective
- having stamens united by their filaments into two groups
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The pea flower is diadelphous, with nine stamens fused together and one separate.
- Botanists identify legume flowers by their diadelphous stamen arrangement.
- The diadelphous condition is characteristic of many plants in the bean family.
- Students learned to recognize diadelphous flowers during their plant identification lab.
- The diadelphous stamens create a distinctive pattern in the flower’s reproductive structure.