Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An inflorescence consisting of a small cuplike structure enclosing a female flower and several male flowers, characteristic of plants in the genus Euphorbia, such as the poinsettia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a name occasionally given to the peculiar monœcious inflorescence of Euphorbia, consisting of a cuplike involucre inclosing several naked male flowers, each consisting of a single stamen, and a single naked pistillate flower.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of the specialised
pseudanthia ("false flowers") forming theinflorescence ofeuphorbias .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The little flowers that grow out of the cyathium are called pistillate flowers.
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In each cyathium flower there are many male flowers but there is only one female one.
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The little flowers that grow out of the cyathium are called pistillate flowers.
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In each cyathium flower there are many male flowers but there is only one female one.
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The greenish yellow bulb in the middle of the Poinsetta is an cyathium.
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In each cyathium flower there are many male flowers but there is usually only one female flower.
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The greenish yellow bulb in the middle of the Poinsetta is an cyathium.
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In each cyathium flower there are many male flowers but there is only one female one.
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The little flowers that grow out of the cyathium are called pistillate flowers.
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The little flowers that grow out of the cyathium are called pistillate flowers.
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