hypogynous
Americanadjective
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situated on the receptacle beneath the pistil and free of the ovary, as stamens, petals, or sepals.
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having stamens, sepals, or petals so arranged.
adjective
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(of a flower) having the gynoecium situated above the other floral parts, as in the buttercup
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of or relating to the parts of a flower arranged in this way
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Having the floral parts, such as sepals, petals, and stamens, borne on the receptacle beneath the ovary.
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Compare epigynous perigynous
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Sepals and petals each 3 or sometimes 4, hypogynous and persistent.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
The disk is hypogynous with five nectariferous glands which are alternate with the stamens.
From Manual of American Grape-Growing by Hedrick, U. P.
Petals 4–5, more or less unequal, with claws, nearly hypogynous.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
A flattened hypogynous disk, underlying the ovary or ovaries, and from which they fall away at maturity, is sometimes called a Gynobase, as in the Rue family.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Ovary inserted on an hypogynous disk, with 2 biovulate compartments.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
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