Bot. [a. Gr. χώρισις separation, f. χωρίζειν to separate.] The splitting of an organ into parts, each of which is as perfect as its original, as the stamens of Hypericum.’
1835. Lindley, Introd. Bot. (1848), I. 332. I propose Chorisis (χωρισις …) to define what I have called deduplication, and the adjective choristate, to signify unlined.
1842. Gray, Struct. Bot., vi. § 3 (1880), 202. Deduplication or Chorisis.
1875. Bennett & Dyer, trans. Sachs’ Bot., II. v. 528. Such a replacement of one stamen by two or more is termed by … Eichler and others Collateral Chorisis.
