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
Other Word Forms
- hypogyny noun
Etymology
Origin of hypogynous
Example Sentences
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Petals either none or as many as the lobes of the calyx, equal, with short claws if any, inserted on the margin of the lobed disk, which is either perigynous or 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
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
The plants with hypogynous flowers should, as a rule, have less seed and more vigorous and abundant foliage than those at the other extreme with epigynous flowers.
From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel
They are hypogynous, and have long and very delicate filaments, and large, linear or oblong two-celled anthers, dorsifixed and ultimately very versatile, deeply indented at each end, and commonly exserted and pendulous.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
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
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