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Meaning of HYPANTHIUM

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Hy*pan"thi*um\, n.; pl. L. {Hypanthia}, E.
{Hypanthiums}. [NL., fr. Gr. "ypo beneath + 'a`nqos flower.]
(Bot.)
A fruit consisting in large part of a receptacle, enlarged
below the calyx, as in the {Calycanthus}, the rose hip, and
the pear.
 
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Biology Dictionary
 
 Definition: A cup or tube bearing floral parts above the base, and often above the top, of the ovary of a flower. Compare calyx tube.
 

 

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