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Amaryllideous :: Amaryllideous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants differing from the lily family chiefly in having the ovary below the /etals. The narcissus and daffodil are members of this family..

Parietal :: Parietal (a.) Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; -- said of a placenta..

Female :: Female (n.) An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova..

Perigynous :: Perigynous (a.) Having the ovary free, but the petals and stamens borne on the calyx; -- said of flower such as that of the cherry or peach..

Locular :: Locular (a.) Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular..

Adherent :: Adherent (a.) Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals..

Pistil :: Pistil (n.) The seed-bearing organ of a flower. It consists of an ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. When composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it is compound. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary..

Epigynous :: Epigynous (a.) Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk..

Receptacle :: Receptacle (n.) The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary..

Basigynium :: Basigynium (n.) The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore..

Pseudovary :: Pseudovary (n.) The organ in which pseudova are produced; -- called also pseudovarium.

Pseudocarp :: Pseudocarp (n.) That portion of an anthocarpous fruit which is not derived from the ovary, as the soft part of a strawberry or of a fig..

Carpellum :: Carpellum (n.) A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore..

Rhachis :: Rhachis (n.) A central cord of the ovary of nematodes.

Polygala :: Polygala (n.) A genus of bitter herbs or shrubs having eight stamens and a two-celled ovary (as the Seneca snakeroot, the flowering wintergreen, etc.); milkwort..

Gynobase :: Gynobase (n.) A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary..

Gymnosperm :: Gymnosperm (n.) A plant that bears naked seeds (i. e., seeds not inclosed in an ovary), as the common pine and hemlock. Cf. Angiosperm..

Paroophoron :: Paroophoron (n.) A small mass of tubules near the ovary in some animals, and corresponding with the parepididymis of the male..

Endocarp :: Endocarp (n.) The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

Mesovarium :: Mesovarium (n.) The fold of peritoneum connecting the ovary with the wall of the abdominal cavity.

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