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; see origin at stylo- ¹, -podium

Example Sentences

Leaves simply pinnate, with sharply toothed leaflets; flowers white; fruit oblong, 1´´ long; stylopodium cushion-like.—Rocky shores of Delaware River; Sycamore, Ohio.

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

Fruit linear, long-beaked, without ribs or oil-tubes, and with conical stylopodium.

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

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

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

Fruit oblong, with very slender ribs, no oil-tubes, depressed stylopodium, and seed-face somewhat concave.—Smooth annual, with ovate perfoliate entire leaves, no involucre, involucels of 5 very conspicuous ovate mucronate bractlets, and yellow 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

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

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