Gynoecium

Word GYNOECIUM
Character 9
Hyphenation ‖Gy nœ ci um
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Gynoecium"

What do we mean by gynoecium?

The female reproductive organs of a flower; the pistil or pistils considered as a group. noun

The pistil or collective pistils of a flower; the female portion of a flower as a whole: correlative to andrœcium. Also gynœcium, gynœceum. noun

The pistils of a flower, taken collectively. See Illust. of carpophore. noun

The pistils of a flower considered as a group noun

A female gametoecium noun

The pistils of a flower considered as a group

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The word "gynoecium" in example sentences

Lacandonia is particularly unique among flowering plants for having "inside-out" flowers, i.e., the central androecium (stamens) surrounded by the gynoecium (separate pistils). ❋ Unknown (2008)

In these days women should be educated for the salon as they once were for the gynoecium. ❋ Unknown (2007)

M. M.iotaxy of androecium, 405 of calyx, 403 corolla, 403 gynoecium, 405 ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

Polyphylly of androecium, 361 of calyx, 350 corolla, 359 plants subject to, 360 of flower, 363 gynoecium, 363 ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

The gynoecium consists of 2 unilocular ovaries each containing an indefinite number of ovules. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

The lararium was deserted; the gynoecium was still, as in the Roman time, the favoured apartment of the female portion of the household, and indeed bore the same name [8], and with the group there assembled we have now to do. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

On either side of this desecrated apartment, stretched, to the right, the old lararium, stripped of its ancient images of ancestor and god; to the left, what had been the gynoecium (women's apartment). ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

He entered the gynoecium, and there still, as when we were first made present in that chamber, sate the maids, employed on a work more brilliant to the eye, and more pleasing to the labour, than that which had then tasked their active hands. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

The Arabidopsis SEUSS (SEU) gene encodes a transcriptional adaptor protein that is required for a diverse set of developmental events, including floral organ identity specification, as well as gynoecium, ovule and embryo development. ❋ Unknown (2010)

-- Fruit of St. Valery apple cut lengthwise.] = Pleiotaxy of the gynoecium. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

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