Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An enlargement at the base of the style of flowers in certain plants of the parsley family.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, one of the double fleshy disks from which the styles in the Umbelliferæ arise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An expansion at the base of the style, as in umbelliferous plants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany An
expansion at thebase of thestyle , as inumbelliferous plants .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an enlargement at the base of the style in some Umbelliferae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin : stylo– + Greek pous, pod-, foot; see podium.]
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See style and podium.
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