suffix. Bot. [Gr. -αδελφία (in comb.) brotherhood, f. ἀδελφός brother.] Collection of stamens into a bundle; as in the Linnæan class-names Monadelphia, Diadelphia, Polyadelphia.
1858. Carpenter, Veg. Physiol., § 456. The more or less complete union of the filaments of the stamens into bundles, or brotherhoods; on account of which the termination adelphia is applied to the number of such bundles.
