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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Stamens hypogynous, 5 and alternate with the sepals, or 3 and alternate with the 3 cells of the ovary.
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
Sepals and petals numerous in several rows, passing gradually into each other, and with the indefinitely numerous stamens hypogynous and deciduous.
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
Cuphea, in Lythraceæ, 186 Stamens 5–8 or 10, and petals hypogynous, or nearly so.
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
But the hypogynous poppies, pinks, and St. John's worts have abundance of seed and rather scanty foliage; while the epigynous dogwoods and honeysuckles have few seeds and abundant foliage.
From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel
Petals usually present, as many, but mostly small or rudimentary, 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
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