a delph i a

pl. [Gr. ἀδελφός ( adelphos ) = a brother.] Bot. Brotherhoods. The fanciful but still not inappropriate name given by Linnæus to the aggregations or bundles of stamina found in some genera of plants. When all the stamina in a flower were aggregated into one bundle, as in the mallows and geraniums, he placed the plant under his cla Mon a delph i a (one brotherhood); when into two bundles, as in most of the papilionaceous sub-order, he ranked it under his Diadelphia (two brotherhoods); and when into more than two, as in the Hypericum, then it was a igned its place in his Poly a delph i a (many brotherhoods).