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receptacle
English
Etymology
From Middle English receptacle, from Anglo-Norman receptacle and Middle French receptacle (“organ containing a fluid; gathering place; water basin”) (modern French réceptacle), from Latin recept?culum (“animal enclosure, container, place of refuge, receptacle, repository, reservoir, shelter”), from recept?re (“to harbour, to receive, to shelter”) or recept? (“I receive back or again, I recover”), frequentative of recipi? (“I receive; I hold back, I reserve”) (from re- (“back, again”) + capi? (“I hold”)) + -culum (suffix forming nouns from verbs, particularly nouns representing tools and instruments); cognate with Italian recettaculo, ricettaculo, Portuguese receptáculo, Spanish receptáculo.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???s?p.t?.kl?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???s?p.t?.k(?)l/, /?i-/
- Hyphenation: re?cep?ta?cle
Noun
receptacle (plural receptacles)
- A container.
- 1818, anonymous [Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley], chapter III, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. In Three Volumes, London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, Finsbury Square, OCLC 682152368; republished as Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; no. IX), rev. and corr. edition, London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street; Bell & Bradfute Edinburgh; J. Cumming, Dublin, 1839, OCLC 316824153, page 38:
- Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.
- 1818, anonymous [Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley], chapter III, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. In Three Volumes, London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, Finsbury Square, OCLC 682152368; republished as Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; no. IX), rev. and corr. edition, London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street; Bell & Bradfute Edinburgh; J. Cumming, Dublin, 1839, OCLC 316824153, page 38:
- (botany) The part of the flower stalk (peduncle or pedicel) to which the floral parts are attached; a thalamus, a torus.
- In the Asteraceae (aster or sunflower family), the end of the peduncle to which all of the florets of the flower head are attached.
- In the Asteraceae (aster or sunflower family), the end of the peduncle to which all of the florets of the flower head are attached.
- (phycology) A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).
- (zoology) An organ that receives and holds a secretion.
- (electricity, US) A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug (typically by receiving the plug's prongs) to supply portable appliances or equipment.
Synonyms
- (botany): thalamus, torus
- See also Thesaurus:container
Translations
References
Further reading
- receptacle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- receptacle (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Middle English
Alternative forms
- receptakel
Etymology
From Middle French receptacle and Anglo-Norman receptacle, from Latin recept?culum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /r?s?pt?a?k?l/, /r?s?pt?a?kl?/
Noun
receptacle (plural receptacles)
- receptacle, container
- (rare) place of refuge
Descendants
- English: receptacle
References
- “recept?cle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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hypogynous
English
Adjective
hypogynous (not comparable)
- (botany) Of a flower, having a superior ovary, attached directly to the receptacle like other floral parts.
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- epigynous, perigynous
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