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Definition of Hypanthium
1. Noun. The cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae).
Definition of Hypanthium
1. n. A fruit consisting in large part of a receptacle, enlarged below the calyx, as in the Calycanthus, the rose hip, and the pear.
Definition of Hypanthium
1. Noun. (botany) The bowl-shaped part of a flower on which the sepals, petals, and stamens are borne ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hypanthium
1. [n -THIA]
Medical Definition of Hypanthium
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypanthium
Literary usage of Hypanthium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"hypanthium turbinate, about as broad as long; stamens at least twice as long ...
hypanthium strongly oblique. hypanthium with the sepals more than 1 cm. ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"There is a well-developed hypanthium often bell- shaped, sometimes urceolate,
cylindrical, turbinate, or saucer-shaped, often more or leas oblique, ..."
3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"In the second group the hypanthium is flat, and bears the floral-leaves and ...
In the third group the hypanthium undergoes further growth when the fruit ..."
4. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"13. EPIGAEA. B. Fruit a drupe or capsule enclosed in the accrescent hypanthium.
Fruit a capsule enclosed in the fleshy hypanthium. ..."
5. Flora of Miami: Being Descriptions of the Seed-plants Growing Naturally on by John Kunkel Small (1913)
"hypanthium merely enclosing the ovary or aduate to it. Calyx surmounting the
hypanthium, the sepals distinct or rarely permanently united. ..."
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