clinanthium

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English

Etymology

From clino- (bed) +‎ Ancient Greek ἄνθος (ánthos) +‎ -ium.

Noun

clinanthium (plural clinanthia)

  1. (botany) The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; the clinium.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for clinanthium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)