Definition of Hipanthium

Definition of Hipanthium

||Hy*pan"thi*um (?), n.; pl. L. Hypanthia (#), E. Hypanthiums (#). [NL., fr. Gr. "ypo beneath + 'a`nqos 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.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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