epanody

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epanody - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Epanody \E*pan"o*dy\, n. [See Epanodos.] (Bot.)
     The abnormal change of an irregular flower to a regular form;
     -- considered by evolutionists to be a reversion to an
     ancestral condition.
     [1913 Webster]