Variant plural of androecium; the male sexual organs of a flower considered as a unified structure.
From Greek 'andros' (male) and 'oikos' (house), with variant Greek plural -ia. An alternative plural form of the botanical term.
In flowering plant botany, using unified terms like androecia instead of listing each stamen individually helped 18th-century botanists understand that flowers had organized systems like animals do.
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