Lexicographical Neighbors of Epigyny
Literary usage of Epigyny
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Life and Plant Uses: An Elementary Textbook, a Foundation for the by John Gaylord Coulter (1913)
"An hypogynous flower is sometimes described as having a superior ovary, while
the expression inferior ovary refers to epigyny. (See Figure 116.) FIG. 116. ..."
2. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"It is believed, for example, that the trend of plant evolution has been toward
epigyny, but there is practically no evidence that ..."
3. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"It also seems to be a safe conclusion, since epigyny is constantly associated
with the most specialized groups of each great division, as Orchidaceae among ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"to the Celastrales in which epigyny is sometimes attained, thence to the ...
where epigyny is constant, and to the Eu- biales in which ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... and epigyny of the flower, a, Stamens; c, carpels; p, petals; s, sepals.
stamens and five carpels. Here the number of parts in the staminal whorl is ..."
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