RECEPTACLE
\ɹɪsˈɛptəkə͡l], \ɹɪsˈɛptəkəl], \ɹ_ɪ_s_ˈɛ_p_t_ə_k_əl]\
Definitions of RECEPTACLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a container that is used to put or keep things in
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an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert
By Princeton University
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a container that is used to put or keep things in
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an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.
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The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.
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The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers.
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An intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or other matters.
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A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.
By Oddity Software
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That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.
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The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.
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The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers.
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An intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or other matters.
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A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. In botany, the tip of a floral axis from which the different parts of a flower spring, torus. 2. In botany, the placenta.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A place or vessel into which something is received, and in which it is contained; the basis of the parts of fructification.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A place or vessel into which a thing is received, or in which it may be contained; in bot., that part of the fructification which bears or receives other parts, as the expanded top of the peduncle of a dandelion, the inner surface of a fig, &c.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
