Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a stalk rising above the base of the flower, and bearing the ovary at its summit, as in plants of the genus Cleome. Also called
podogynium , or more frequently gynophore (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
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- noun botany The
pedicel on which theovary of certainflowers , such as the passion flower, isseated ; acarpophore orthecaphore .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek base + woman.
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