meaning of hypanthium

1. A fruit consisting in large part of a receptacle, enlarged below the calyx, as in the Calycanthus, the rose hip, and the pear.
2.
the cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx as in Rosaceae


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