Monadelphous is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 24 points.
You can make 1607 anagrams from letters in monadelphous (adehlmnoopsu).
First recorded in 1800-10; mon- + -adelphous
Stamens 5, monadelphous in a 10-toothed tube or cup; leaves simple, all radical.
Stamens 10, monadelphous at the very base, otherwise distinct.
Filaments short, monadelphous at base; anthers long and linear, approximate in a slender cone.
Sheath of the monadelphous stamens entire; anthers alternately oblong and roundish.
In their lower part the stamens are fused together by their stalks, like the "monadelphous" stamens of a mallow.
In Ochlandra they vary from seven to thirty, and in Gigantochloa they are monadelphous.
Corolla and monadelphous stamens inserted at the summit of the calyx-tube; standard orbicular; keel incurved.
Stamens showing the union of the filaments into a common tube (monadelphous).