(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:03:38

Ba`si*gyn"i*um (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. base + woman.] Bot.

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

 

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