epigynous
Americanadjective
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(of flowers) having all floral parts conjoint and generally divergent from the ovary at or near its summit.
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(of stamens, petals, etc.) having the parts so arranged.
adjective
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(of flowers) having the receptacle enclosing and fused with the gynoecium so that the other floral parts arise above it
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Having floral parts (such as the petals and stamens) attached to or near the upper part of the ovary, as in the flower of the apple, cucumber, or daffodil.
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Compare hypogynous perigynous
Other Word Forms
- epigyny noun
Etymology
Origin of epigynous
Example Sentences
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Thus Theophrastus has succeeded in distinguishing between the hypogynous, perigynous, and epigynous types of flower, and has almost come to regard its relation to the fruit as the essential floral element.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.
Ovary inferior, held in the concavity of the receptacle, one-celled, with 1 seed, crowned by an epigynous disc, above which rises a simple style with dilated stigma.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
Petals 5, epigynous, oblong or obovate, lightly imbricated in the bud, deciduous.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Stylopodium, an epigynous disk, or an enlargement at the base of the style.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
In Umbelliferæ the epigynous condition is changed for the perigynous, &c.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
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