单词 | gynaeceum |
释义 | gynaeceumgyneceumn. 1. a. Ancient Greek History and Roman History. The women's apartments in a household; any building set apart for women. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > suite of rooms > [noun] > for women of household seraglio1581 serail1585 harem1634 gynaeceum1723 zenana1761 serai1813 anderoon1840 haremlik?1850 gynaeconitis1855 terem1898 1723 R. Millar Hist. Propagation Christianity II. ix. 553 Their Gynecæum for young Gentlewomen taught at the expense of their parents. 1832 W. Gell Pompeiana I. viii. 151 A gynecæum or apartment for the women and children. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iii. 60 Women, up till this Cramp'd under worse than South-Sea-isle taboo, Dwarfs of the gynecæum. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. i. i. 12 The lararium was deserted; the gynœcium was still, as in the Roman time, the favoured apartment of the female portion of the house-hold. 1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. iii. ix. 178 The degradation of the harem and the narrowness of the gynaeceum. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > [noun] > place for gynaeceum1610 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 77 The Procurator of the Gynegium of Draperie in Britaine, in which the clothes of the Prince, and souldiers were woven. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xvii. 56 We had a treasury-chest in London, and a gyneceum or manufacture at Winchester. 2. Botany. The female organs of a flower, collectively. Now usually spelt gynœcium n. having been supposed to be from Greek οἰκίον house; under the influence of this notion andrœcium n. has been formed as its correlative. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > stamen or pistil > style or pistil and related parts chire1398 chithe1398 chyde?a1500 chive1535 clapper1578 dodkin1578 pestle1597 pointel1597 umbone1633 style1682 pistillum1703 pistil1717 stylet1720 stylus1729 column1807 gynobase1830 gynaeceum1832 stylopodium1832 stylopod1849 gynostegium1880 pistillode1904 columna- 1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. §10. 138 The last organ to enumerate in the flower is..the female system or gynæceum of Röper..usually called the pistillum. 1858 A. Gray Lett. (1893) 449 When you speak of ovary in Clematis leave us to gather, from the context, whether you mean, (1) the whole gynæcium; (2) a separate pistil; or, (3) the ovuliferous portion of a pistil. 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 477 In Althæa rosea..the filaments form a membranous closed tube which completely envelopes the gynæceum. 1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. vi. §1. 165 The aggregate stamens of a flower have been called the Andrœcium; the pistils, the Gynœcium. 1897 J. C. Willis Man. Flowering Plants I. 59 The rest of the flower is hypogynous (below the gynœceum or carpellary portion). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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