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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The stalk of a pistil.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. 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.
  2. n. 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.

Wiktionary

  1. n. botany The stalk of a pistil

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the stalk of a pistil that raises it above the receptacle

Etymologies

  1. gyno- + -phore (Wiktionary)

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