Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ringlike, cup-shaped, or tubular structure of a flower on which the sepals, petals, and stamens are borne, as in the flowers of the rose or cherry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, an enlargement or other development of the torus under the calyx. Gray.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A fruit consisting in large part of a receptacle, enlarged below the calyx, as in the Calycanthus, the rose hip, and the pear.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The
bowl -shaped part of aflower on which thesepals ,petals , andstamens are borne
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The magnificent trumpet that thrusts out of the flower and announces the arrival of spring is a freak of nature, an elongated portion of the flower called the hypanthium.
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The calyx and corolla are fused to form a floral tube (also called a hypanthium) that is cylindrical (4-6 mm long), greenish, and 8-12 nerved.
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But in the daffodil, the hypanthium enlongates into the trumpet, a unique flower organ.
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It's only revealed in certain flowers after pollination – when you eat an apple, for instance, you are biting into a thick, fleshy hypanthium.
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I want to stop smelling the basal stipules, pinnate leaflets, hypanthium and achenes.
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Mr. Bentham, who has recently reviewed the evidence as to the nature of the calyx-tube in his paper on _Myrtaceæ_, [557] still holds to the notion that the "calyx-tube" or "hypanthium" is formed from the concretion of the basal portions of the sepals.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The structure now is regarded as a hollowed receptacle or stem (hypanthium), with the pistil inside, the petals and stamens on its rim.
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Technically, it is not a fruit but a false fruit, meaning the fleshy part is derived not from the plant's ovaries (achenes) but from the peg at the bottom of the bowl-shaped hypanthium that holds the ovaries.
WN.com - Articles related to Congress begins investigating salmonella outbreak, egg recalls 2010
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Technically, it is not a fruit but a false fruit, meaning the fleshy part is derived not from the plant's ovaries (achenes) but from the peg at the bottom of the bowl-shaped hypanthium that holds the ovaries.
WN.com - Articles related to Congress begins investigating salmonella outbreak, egg recalls 2010
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(achenes) but from the peg at the bottom of the bowl-shaped hypanthium that holds the ovaries.
WN.com - Articles related to Congress begins investigating salmonella outbreak, egg recalls 2010
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