Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, of or pertaining to a receptacle.
- In zoology and anatomy, serving as a receptacle or reservoir; pertaining to a receptaculum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it.
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- adjective botany Pertaining to, or growing in, the
receptacle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The position of the spur in a line with the posterior sepal has led many botanists to consider it as a process of that sepal, but the fact of its being situated within the insertion of the petals is conclusive as to its receptacular origin.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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[558] See also the receptacular tube (ovary?) of _Bæckea_ bearing stamens, see p. 183.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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And, indeed, in many of these cases it would be impossible to say where the axial or receptacular portion ended, and the foliar portion began.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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