Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the receptacle of a composite plant. Also called
cœnanthium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called
clinium .
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- noun botany The
receptacle of theflowers in acomposite plant ; theclinium .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek bed + flower.
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