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Hypocarpium :: Hypocarpium (n.) A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew..

Spout :: Spout (v. t.) A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle..

Trough :: Trough (n.) Any channel, receptacle, or depression, of a long and narrow shape; as, trough between two ridges, etc..

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

Ditch :: Ditch (n.) Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth..

Chaff :: Chaff (n.) The scales or bracts on the receptacle, which subtend each flower in the heads of many Compositae, as the sunflower..

Inserted :: Inserted (a.) Situated upon, attached to, or growing out of, some part; -- said especially of the parts of the flower; as, the calyx, corolla, and stamens of many flowers are inserted upon the receptacle..

Cynarrhodium :: Cynarrhodium (n.) A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes..

Hierotheca :: Hierotheca (n.) A receptacle for sacred objects.

Oviferous :: Oviferous (a.) Egg-bearing; -- applied particularly to certain receptacles, as in Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded from the formative organs, until they are hatched..

Torus :: Torus (n.) The receptacle, or part of the flower on which the carpels stand..

Receptacle :: Receptacle (n.) The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers.

Continent :: Continent (a.) That which contains anything; a receptacle.

Uterus :: Uterus (n.) A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append..

Magazine :: Magazine (n.) A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc..

Gonophore :: Gonophore (n.) A lengthened receptacle, bearing the stamens and carpels in a conspicuous manner..

Gehenna :: Gehenna (n.) The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testament the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell..

Audit :: Audit (a.) A general receptacle or receiver.

Sporangia :: Sporangiophore (n.) The axis or receptacle in certain ferns (as Trichomanes), which bears the sporangia..

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..

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