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Definition of Gynoecium
1. Noun. A female gametoecium.
Definition of Gynoecium
1. Noun. (botany) The pistils of a flower considered as a group ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gynoecium
1. gynecium [n -CIA] - See also: gynecium
Medical Definition of Gynoecium
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gynoecium
Literary usage of Gynoecium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"Tournefort, who appears to have introduced the word, employed it in the sense of
gynoecium. Many authors define it thus, and then practically eliminate from ..."
2. The Student's Guide to Structural, Morphological and Physiological Botany by Robert Bentley (1883)
"The gynoecium, or pistil as it is frequently called, is the central or terminal
organ of the flower ; and it consists of one or more ..."
3. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"Median axis oí the gynoecium not in the axis of the stem : seeds mostly ...
Ovules erect, or laterally attached : gynoecium ripening into a dry or fleshy ..."
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