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To begin [Obs.] See Gin.

rt of a large house, among the ancients, exclusively appropriated to women. [Written also gyneceum, gynecium.] Tennyson.

The same as Gynecian.

A ventral canal or groove, in which the males of some dioecious trematodes carry the female. See Illust. of Hæmatozoa.

A plant having the stamens inserted in the pistil.

A class of plants in the Linnaean system, whose stamens grow out of, or are united with, the pistil.

Having stamens inserted in the pistil; belonging to the class Gynandria.

An animal affected with gynandromorphism,

An abnormal condition of certain animals, in which one side has the external characters of the male, and the other those of the female.

Affected, with gynandromorphism.

Pertaining to an abnormal condition of the flower, in which the stamens are converted into pistils. A. Brown.

Government by a woman. Chesterfield.

See Gynæceum.

Of or relating to women.

Government by a woman, female power; gyneocracy. Bailey.

Of or pertaining to gynecology.

The science which treats of the structure and diseases of women. -- Gyn`e*col"o*gist.

See Gynecocracy.

The adoration or worship of woman. The sentimental gyneolatry of chivalry, which was at best but skin- deep. Lowell.

Hatred of women; repugnance to the society of women. Holmes.