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To begin. See Gin. [Obs.]

A dilated base or receptacle, supporting a multilocular ovary.

Pertaining to, or having, a gynobase.

Female government; gynecocracy. The aforesaid state has repeatedly changed from absolute despotism to republicanism, not forgetting the intermediate stages of oligarchy, limited monarchy, and even gynocracy; for I myself remember Alsatia governed for nearly nine months by an old fishwoman. Sir H. Scott.…

Dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.

The pistils of a flower, taken collectively. See Illust. of Carpophore.

The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower. Lindley.

Without female organs; male.

An androgynous plant. Whewell.

ature both male and female; hermaphroditic. Owen. The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous. Coleridge.

Union of both sexes in one individual; hermaphroditism.

The pedicel on which the ovary of certain flowers, as the passion flower, is seated; a carpophore or thecaphore.

A Linnæan order of plants characterized by having ten styles.

Belonging to the Decagynia; having ten styles.

A Linnæan order of plants having two styles.

Of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles.

A Linnæan order of plants having twelve styles.

Of or pertaining to the Dodecagynia; having twelve styles.

Having eleven pistils; as, an endecagynous flower.

Variant of Engine. [Obs.] Chaucer.