NOUN
- the cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae)
How To Use hypanthium In A Sentence
- I removed the anthers from a single flower on each marked branch before dehiscence and marked the base of the hypanthium with a spot of paint.
- The styles were then removed from each flower just above the point of emergence from the hypanthium and passed to the evaluator.
- I want to stop smelling the basal stipules, pinnate leaflets, hypanthium and achenes. Yolanda Reid Chassiakos: A Rose By Any Other Name
- In pressing and drying specimens, the hypanthium appears to shrink somewhat.
- The hypanthium is usually glabrous, with narrowly triangular sepals that are pubescent adaxially and are deciduous in fruit.
