单词 | proper receptacle |
释义 | > as lemmasproper receptacle 2. Botany. The central axis to which the parts of a flower are attached, consisting of the modified (often enlarged and convex) end of the pedicel or peduncle (also floral receptacle, formerly †proper receptacle); also called torus. Also: the modified (usually flattened) top of the axis of a capitulum or head; the hollow top of the axis of a syconium or hypanthodium; (also common receptacle). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > receptacle or thalamus receptaculum1725 receptacle1753 thalamus1753 torus1829 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Receptaculum The disk of the receptacle is of various shapes in the various plants. 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. P6v Proprium receptaculum, a Proper or peculiar receptacle... In opposition to a Common receptacle, connecting several florets. 1798 W. Curtis Flora Londinensis II. Pl. 100 Receptacle [of Dandelion] naked, and full of little holes. 1825 Brewster's Edinb. Jrnl. Sci. 3 166 The base of the style and the floral receptacle are taken into account, and thus the genera..are characterized..solely by their flowers and fruit. 1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. iii. 89 The proper receptacle or apex of the peduncle swells in some flowers, and becomes the fruit. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 254 Nutlets..attached by the edge to an elevated receptacle. 1912 New Phytologist 11 303 The pappose calyx of Compositæ..is readily conceived as advantageous in operating to release the inferior fruit quickly..from a common receptacle. 1940 R. Matheson Entomol. xxi. 530 The fig is not a true fruit, but is known as a receptacle, on the inner surface of which are hundreds of small, unisexual flowers. 1991 A. D. Bell Plant Form (1993) i. 146/1 The various components of a flower may be considered to be attached in sequence along a usually very short and variously shaped central axis, the torus or floral receptacle. 2005 Developmental Biol. 284 459/2 Lateral sepals were no longer opposite in these flowers disrupting the symmetrical arrangement of organs around the receptacle circumference. < as lemmas |
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