stylopodium

American  

[stahy-luh-poh-dee-uhm] / ˌstaɪ ləˈpoʊ di əm /

noun

Botany.

plural

stylopodia

1. a glandular disk or expansion surmounting the ovary and supporting the styles in plants of the parsley family.

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stylopodium British  

/ ˌstaɪləˈpəʊdɪəm /

noun

1. botany a swelling at the base of the style in umbelliferous plants

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Etymology

Origin of stylopodium

From New Latin, dating back to 1825–35; stylo- ¹, -podium

Example Sentences

Fruit oblong to ovate, glabrous, with slender equal ribs, numerous oil-tubes, and depressed or cushion-like stylopodium.—Glabrous perennials, with ternately or pinnately compound leaves, involucre and involucels scanty or none, and white or yellow flowers.

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The base of the styles is frequently thickened and cushion-like, and called the stylopodium.

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Fruit oblong, with slender ribs, no oil-tubes, and prominent flat stylopodium.

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Fruit ovate or oblong, flattened laterally; stylopodium conical; prickles barbed or hooked; seed-face deeply sulcate.

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Glaucous, 1–3° high, slender, branching; leaves 2–3-ternate, with lanceolate to ovate entire leaflets; flowers yellow; fruit broadly oblong, 2´´ long; stylopodium small or wanting.

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