inferior ovary

noun

1. Botany. an ovary positioned below the receptacle of a flower, as in members of the iris family.

Word History and Origins

Origin of inferior ovary¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

Differs from Liliaceæ chiefly in the inferior ovary.

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United, as the inferior ovary with the calyx-tube.

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FUCHSIA, so named by Plumier in honour of the botanist Leonhard Fuchs, a genus of plants of the natural order Onagraceae, characterized by entire, usually opposite leaves, pendent flowers, a funnel-shaped, brightly coloured, quadripartite, deciduous calyx, 4 petals, alternating with the calycine segments, 8, rarely 10, exserted stamens, a long filiform style, an inferior ovary, and fruit, a fleshy ovoid many-seeded berry.

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This tribe is sometimes regarded as a separate order Vacciniaceae, distinguished by its inferior ovary.

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It appears at the base of the corolla, at the summit of the inferior ovary, and is known as pappus.

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