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Definition of Gynophore
1. Noun. The stalk of a pistil that raises it above the receptacle.
Definition of Gynophore
1. n. The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower.
Definition of Gynophore
1. Noun. (botany) The stalk of a pistil ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gynophore
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Gynophore
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gynophore
Literary usage of Gynophore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1857)
"... or combined into a compound ovary of as many cell», raised on a prolongation
of the receptacle (gynophore) or glandular disk. — Embryo large, curved or ..."
2. Flora of Tropical Africa by Daniel Oliver (1868)
"Stamens 4 ; filaments adnate, halfway up the gynophore or higher. Ovary minutely
glandular ... Stamens 5, adnate nearly half the length of the gynophore. ..."
3. Gardeners' Magazine of Botany, Horticulture, Floriculture, and Natural Science by Thomas Moore, William P Ayres (1850)
"... base of the gynophore, alternating with the lobes of the calyx, clawed, ...
oblong, adnate to the broader base of the elongated columnar gynophore, ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"At the bottom of the calyx tube is the ovary which, after fertilisation, is
gradually carried away by the development of a gynophore or ..."
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