Definition of Gynaecia

1. gynaecium [n] - See also: gynaecium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gynaecia

gymnure
gymnures
gymp
gymped
gymping
gymps
gyms
gymslip
gymslipped
gymslips
gyn-
gynae
gynaecandrous
gynaecea
gynaeceum
gynaecia (current term)
gynaecian
gynaecium
gynaeco-
gynaecocracy
gynaecologic
gynaecologic oncology
gynaecological
gynaecological oncologist
gynaecologically
gynaecologies
gynaecologist
gynaecologists
gynaecology
gynaecomastia

Literary usage of Gynaecia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Structural Botany: An Introductory Textbook for Students of by Henry Hurd Rusby (1911)
"In still other cases the ripened gynaecia of more than one flower cohere and perform the fruit function as one body, as in the case of the partridge-berry, ..."

2. Geschichte der Geburtshülfe by Heinrich Fasbender (1906)
"Jahrhundert noch nicht in Betracht.3) Die „gynaecia". Am Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts erschienen, als Ausdruck des regeren Interesses, welches man anfing der ..."

3. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"Their workshops were the gynaecia, in which the manufacture of all articles of clothing of the imperial family, and all the washing and other laundry work ..."

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