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Definition: AMBIGENOUS

Part of Speech Definition
Adjective 1. Of two kinds.[Websters]
2. Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.[Websters]
3. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb ambigenously.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(ambigenously)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective ambigenous.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Ambigenous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Etymology:Ambigenous \Am*big"e*nous\, adjective. [Latin expression ambo both genus kind.]. (references)

Definition: AMBIGENOUS

Part of SpeechDefinition
Adjective1. Of two kinds.[Websters]
2. Partaking of two natures, as the perianth of some endogenous plants, where the outer surface is calycine, and the inner petaloid.[Websters]
3. Virtually never used base adjective of the rarely used adverb ambigenously.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Form
(ambigenously)
1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective ambigenous.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "AMBIGENOUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Etymology:Ambigenous \Am*big"e*nous\, adjective. [Latin expression ambo both genus kind.]. (references)