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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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).
Wiktionary
- n. botany The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, such as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
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- Ancient Greek base + woman. (Wiktionary)
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