Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The female reproductive organs of a flower; the pistil or pistils considered as a group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The pistil or collective pistils of a flower; the female portion of a flower as a whole: correlative to andrœcium. Also gynœcium, gynœceum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The pistils of a flower, taken collectively. See
Illust. ofcarpophore .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The
pistils of aflower considered as a group
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a female gametoecium
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Lacandonia is particularly unique among flowering plants for having "inside-out" flowers, i.e., the central androecium (stamens) surrounded by the gynoecium (separate pistils).
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In these days women should be educated for the salon as they once were for the gynoecium.
A Marriage Contract 2007
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Polyphylly of androecium, 361 of calyx, 350 corolla, 359 plants subject to, 360 of flower, 363 gynoecium, 363
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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M. M.iotaxy of androecium, 405 of calyx, 403 corolla, 403 gynoecium, 405
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The gynoecium consists of 2 unilocular ovaries each containing an indefinite number of ovules.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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He entered the gynoecium, and there still, as when we were first made present in that chamber, sate the maids, employed on a work more brilliant to the eye, and more pleasing to the labour, than that which had then tasked their active hands.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The lararium was deserted; the gynoecium was still, as in the Roman time, the favoured apartment of the female portion of the household, and indeed bore the same name [8], and with the group there assembled we have now to do.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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On either side of this desecrated apartment, stretched, to the right, the old lararium, stripped of its ancient images of ancestor and god; to the left, what had been the gynoecium (women's apartment).
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The lararium was deserted; the gynoecium was still, as in the Roman time, the favoured apartment of the female portion of the household, and indeed bore the same name [8], and with the group there assembled we have now to do.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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On either side of this desecrated apartment, stretched, to the right, the old lararium, stripped of its ancient images of ancestor and god; to the left, what had been the gynoecium (women's apartment).
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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