epigynous
adjective
epig·y·nous i-ˈpi-jə-nəs 
e-
1
of a floral organ : adnate to the surface of the ovary and appearing to grow from the top of it
2
: having epigynous floral organs
epigyny
i-ˈpi-jə-nē
noun e-
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from New Latin epigynus, from epi- epi- + -gynus -gynous
Note: The term was apparently introduced, along with perigynus perigynous, by the French botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748-1836) in Genera plantarum secundum ordines rationales disposita (Paris, 1789), p. xiii.
First Known Use
1830, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- green around the gills
- green arrow arum
- green ash
- green bass
- Green Bay
- green bean
- Green Beret
- green book
- green bristle
- green bristlegrass
- green broke
- green broom
- green bulbul
- green card
- green charge
- green cheese
- green chromide
- green cinnabar
- green citrus aphid
- green cloth
- green cloverworm
- green cod
- green cormorant
- green corn
- green crab