Botanical Words Alphabetical List - GY

GYMNOCARPOUS: Having a naked fruit, especially in lichens.

GYMNOGYNOUS: Having a naked ovary.

GYMNOSPERM: A plant belonging to the Gymnospermae, characterized by naked seeds, as in the conifers (plants producing cones).

GYMNOSPERMOUS: Having naked seeds. Also gymnogenous, gymnospermal, gymnospermic.

GYMNOSPORE: A naked spore.

GYMNOSPOROUS: Having naked spores.

GYNANDROUS: Having the stamens adnate to and apparently borne upon the pistils, as in all Orchids.

GYNANTHEROUS: Having the stamens converted into pistils.

GYNO-: Pistil or ovary.

GYNOBASE: A prolongation or enlargement of the flower receptacle that bears the gynoecium.

GYNODIOECIOUS: Having perfect and female flowers growing upon separate plants.

GYNOECIUM: The pistil or collective pistils of a flower; the female portion of a flower as a whole. In correlation to androecium. Also gynecium, gynaeceum.

GYNOMONOECIOUS: Having both perfect and female flowers upon the same plant.

GYNOPHORE: An elongation of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gynoecium at its apex, as in some Capparidaceae.

GYNOSTEGIUM: A covering of the gynoecium.

GYNOSTEMIUM (pl. gynostemia): The column of an orchid, formed by the union of the androecium and gynoecium.

GYROMA: 1. The annulus of a fern. 2. The shield of some lichens.

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