a. Bot. [f. Gr. ἀμφί about + βρύ-ειν to swell + -OUS.] (See quot.)
1866. Gray, Introd. Bot., 522. Amphibryous, growing by additions over the whole periphery. [Ibid. (1880), Bot. Text-bk., 395. Amphibrya, equivalent to monocotyledones.]
