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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The species have opposite or sometimes whorled leaves without stipules; the corolla monopetalous, hypogynous, and with the stamens inserted upon it; fruit two-celled.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
The first advance is to a definite number of parts and a permanently shortened axis, in the arrangement termed hypogynous, in which all the whorls are quite distinct from each other.
From Darwinism (1889) by Alfred Russel Wallace
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 Asa Gray
Stamens as many as the hypogynous petals, and attached to their base.
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 Asa Gray
It is useful to be able to classify a flower and to know that the buttercup belongs to the Family Ranunculaceae, with petals free and definite, stamens hypogynous and indefinite, pistil apocarpous.
From The Fairy-Land of Science by Arabella B. Buckley
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