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Webster 1913 Edition

Hypanthium

‖

Hy-pan′thi-um

,

Noun.

;

pl. L.

Hypanthia

(#)

, E.

Hypanthiums

(#)

.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ὑπο

beneath +

ἄνθοσ

flower.]

(Bot.)

A fruit consisting in large part of a receptacle, enlarged below the calyx, as in the

Calycanthus

, the rose hip, and the pear.