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Webster 1913 Edition

Gynoecium

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Gy-nœ′ci-um

(jĭ-nē′sĭ-ŭm or -shĭ-ŭm)

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr.

γυνή

a woman +

οἶκοσ

house.]

(Bot.)

The pistils of a flower, taken collectively. See Illust. of

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