EPIGYNOUS - Definition

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

	Definition:	\Epig"ynous\, a. [Pref. epi- + Gr. ? woman, female: cf. F. ['e]pigyne.] (Bot.) 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.

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Biology Dictionary

	Definition:	Of floral parts (especially stamens), attached above the level of insertion of the ovary, and arising from tissue that is fused to the ovary wall. Compare hypogynous, perigynous.