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Definition of Hypogyny
1. the condition of having flowers with organs situated below the ovary [n -NIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypogyny
Literary usage of Hypogyny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... within it of apetalous families with frequently unisexual flowers, have provoked
much discussion. In Monocotyledons a similar advance from hypogyny to ..."
2. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1905)
"... are inserted on the corolla-tube—the hypogyny is decided by the insertion of
the corolla beneath the ovary; eg Privet, Lilac, Tea Tree, Bittersweet. ..."
3. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"... with hypogyny among the Labiatae. It is among the Compositae that practically
every evolutionary tendency mentioned finds its highest expression. ..."
4. Plant Life and Plant Uses: An Elementary Textbook, a Foundation for the by John Gaylord Coulter (1913)
"You observe that ovaries have three distinct positions with reference to the rest
of the flower. FIG. 115. — Diagrams illustrating hypogyny ..."
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