Medical Definition of Gynaecium
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gynaecium
Literary usage of Gynaecium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Agricultural Botany, Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1913)
"Flowers of this type are described as epigynous, and the gynaecium is inferior
... The exact limits of the recep'tacle and the gynaecium cannot be seen or ..."
2. Essentials of vegetable pharmacognosy: A Treatise on Structural Botany by Henry Hurd Rusby, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1895)
"42 illustrates a petal of the Vanilla, adnate to the gynaecium, while the other
... It is plain that when the calyx and the gynaecium are adnate all the ..."
3. A Manual of Structural Botany: An Introductory Textbook for Students of by Henry Hurd Rusby (1911)
"In many cases the ripened gynaecium performs or may perform the fruit-function
entire, as in the cherry, the strawberry, the blueberry, the so-called "seed" ..."
4. Agricultural Botany: Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1921)
"Flowers which like the buttercup have the corolla and androecium inserted on the
receptacle at a lower level than the gynaecium and free from the latter are ..."
5. Text-book of Botany and Pharmacognosy by Henry Kraemer (1908)
"The aggregate of pistils in a flower constitutes the gynaecium. If the gynaecium
is made up of a number of simple pistils, as in the flower of buttercup ..."
6. Applied and Economic Botany for Students in Technical and Agricultural by Henry Kraemer (1916)
"... or partitions between the locules of a syncarpous gynaecium are known as ...
exist in the syncarpous gynaecium the placentas are borne along the axis of ..."
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