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Botany. The pedicel or stalk which in some flowers supports the ovary.
(a) a surface or receptacle bearing a theca or thecæ (Webster 1864); (b) the stalk which in some flowers supports the ovary; = gynophore, n. 1.
A fleshy receptacle bearing a number of carpels, as in the strawberry.