a. Bot. CHLOR-1 + Gr. ἄνθ-ος flower + -OUS.] Having green flowers.
Hence Chloranthy, a condition of regressive metamorphosis of a plant in which the colored floral organs return to the color 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.
