decagynous, a. Bot.
(dɪˈkædʒɪnəs)
[f. mod.Bot. L. decagyn-us, f. Gr. δέκα ten + γυνή woman, female, taken by Linnæus in sense of ‘female organ, pistil’.]
Having ten pistils.
So decaˈgynia, a name for an order of plants having ten pistils, in a class of the Linnæan Sexual System, as class Decandria, order Decagynia, genus Phytolacca: see Linnæus Spec. Plant. ed. 1, 1753, Colin Milne Bot. Dict. 1770.