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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A stalk that supports the pistil in certain plants.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, an elongation or internode of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynœcium, as the stipe of a pod in some Cruciferæ and Capparidaceæ.
  • noun In Hydrozoa, the branch of a gonoblastidium which bears female gonophores, or those reproductive receptacles or generative buds which contain ova only, as distinguished from male gonophores or androphores. See cut under gonoblastidium.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower.
  • noun (Zoöl.) One of the branches bearing the female gonophores, in certain Siphonophora.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun botany The stalk of a pistil

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the stalk of a pistil that raises it above the receptacle

Etymologies

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gyno- + -phore

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