inferior ovary

American  

noun

1. Botany. an ovary positioned below the receptacle of a flower, as in members of the iris family.

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Etymology

Origin of inferior ovary

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Cupuliferae have an inferior ovary and rudimentary calyx-limb on the top.

From Darwinism (1889) by Wallace, Alfred Russel

On the other hand, the occasional formation of a leaf on the inferior ovary of those plants would indicate the axial nature of the fruit.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.

Differs from Liliaceæ chiefly in the inferior 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

United, as the inferior ovary with the calyx-tube.

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

This tribe is sometimes regarded as a separate order Vacciniaceae, distinguished by its inferior ovary.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various