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Basigynium

Ba`si*gyn"i*um\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? base + ? woman.] (Bot.) The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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