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Definition of Gynaeceum
1. gynecium [n -CEA] - See also: gynecium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gynaeceum
Literary usage of Gynaeceum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Botanic Terms, with Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1905)
"... a roof), the sheath or covering of a gynaeceum of any kind ... cium and
gynaeceum combined. the general appearance of a plant, whether erect, prostrate, ..."
2. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"The differences in the form of the floral axis, which involve changes in the
position of the gynaeceum, lead to differences in the form of the flower itself ..."
3. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"The mode of expressing the gynaeceum Cw(_m) is intended to show that very commonly
the number of carpels is fewer than 5 or 4 (or 8 as ..."
4. History: Fiction of Science? by Anatoly T. Fomenko (2005)
"Below we shall see that our reconstruction of this “gynaeceum episode” involving
... It is said that he had served in a Constantinople gynaeceum before the ..."
5. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"The gynaeceum forms originally the terminal structure of the flower. Its position
is more or less early changed in perigynous and particularly in epigynous ..."
6. The Church of Sancta Sophia, Constantinople: A Study of Byzantine Building by William Richard Lethaby, Harold Swainson (1894)
"12 shows the underside of the beam in the middle of the west gynaeceum ; fig.
... one in the south gynaeceum ; figs. 13 and 14, one in the north ..."
7. The Student, and Intellectual Observer (1868)
"It was the case also among the Romans in Italy, where a name derived from the
Greek, gynaeceum, was given to the room set apart for the females, ..."
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