Adelaster

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adelaster \Ad*e*las"ter\, n. [Gr. ? not manifest + ? a star.]
     (Bot.)
     A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers
     botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to
     its proper genus.
     [1913 Webster]