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Definition of Hypogynous
1. a. Inserted below the pistil or pistils; -- said of sepals, petals, and stamens; having the sepals, petals, and stamens inserted below the pistil; -- said of a flower or a plant.
Definition of Hypogynous
1. Adjective. (botany) Of a flower, having a superior ovary, attached directly to the receptacle like other floral parts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hypogynous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Hypogynous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypogynous
Literary usage of Hypogynous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1878)
"hypogynous bristles none or fine and rare. No leaf-sheaths between the basal and
... Spikelets black, in a terminal cluster or irregular umbel, hypogynous ..."
2. Library of Useful Knowledge (1838)
"Stamens hypogynous, 8, usually in a tube ; anthers innate, 1 celled and opening
at their ... Petals 5 or fi, hypogynous. Stamens either very numerous or 10. ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Our genus will naturally be looked for among the perigynous, not among the
hypogynous orders. 1. CALYCANTHUS, Linn. ..."
4. Botany All the Year Round: A Practical Text-book for Schools by Eliza Frances Andrews (1903)
"THE FLOWER hypogynous MONOCOTYLEDONS MATERIAL.— Any flower of the lily family
with disunited petals. Star-of-Bethlehem and yucca are used in the text. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"Each flower consists of a perianth of six regular pieces, as many hypogynous
stamens, with dilated filaments, bearing relatively small anthers. ..."
6. The Student's Flora of the British Islands by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1878)
"Stamens 6, 3 hypogynous and 3 on the base of the segments, filaments subulate
villous ; anthers linear, fixed by the back, bursting inwards. ..."
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