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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Origin of hypogynous
Example Sentences
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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 Wallace, Alfred Russel
Thus Theophrastus has succeeded in distinguishing between the hypogynous, perigynous, and epigynous types of flower, and has almost come to regard its relation to the fruit as the essential floral element.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by Livingstone, R.W.
Stamens in two sets of 3 each, placed opposite the larger petals, hypogynous; their filaments often united; middle anther of each set 2-celled, the lateral ones 1-celled.
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
I love the flowers, and I like to paint them and learn their English names, but I don't care in the least if their stamens are hypogynous or their cotyledons induplicate!
From The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life by Dixon, Arthur A.
Glandular-haired scapose marsh herbs, with regular 5-merous hypogynous flowers.
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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