chloranthous, a. Bot.
(klɒˈrænθəs)
[f. chlor-1 + Gr. ἄνθ-ος flower + -ous.]
Having green flowers.
Hence chloˈranthy, a condition of regressive metamorphosis of a plant in which the coloured floral organs return to the colour and condition of leaves, as in the green rose, green flowers of Pyrethrum, etc.
| 1871 Thiselton Dyer in Jrnl. Bot. IX. 19 A kind of corymb of chloranthous flowers. |