receptacularadj.
/ˌrɛsɛpˈtakjᵿlə/, U.S. /ˌrɛsɛpˈtækjələr/ 1. Of the nature of or serving as a receptacle.
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1798 W. Drysdale Sacred Script. Theory of Earth 165 The waters were so much drifted in, by their currents, at the polar and other receptacular apertures, as to subside progressively below the tops of the highest mountains.
1848 Times 14 Nov. 8/7 Being an air-breathing animal, with long vesicular and receptacular lungs.
1854 Abstr. Papers Royal Soc. 1850–54 6 342 The stomach or digestive gland..is..divisible into three distinct cavities—the secreting or cardiac, the receptacular or pyloric, and the efferent or duodenum.
1931 Philos. Rev. 40 255 The objective relativist, if he is wise, will insist that he does not claim to see physical objects ‘where they are’ in the receptacular space that Lovejoy seemingly would provide him with.
1946 Philos. Rev. 55 29 Physicists tended to think that there were points and positions in an Absolute Space and in an Absolute Time of a receptacular sort.
1996 Evolution 50 696/2 This requirement can be violated in cricket matings if, as often happens, the narrow spermatophoric tube is not threaded correctly into the female's receptacular duct.
2000 Jrnl. Arachnol. 28 254/2 Details of the macerated female receptacular complex are given for several species.
2. Botany. Attached to or forming part of the receptacle of a flower or inflorescence, or that of a cryptogam (cf. receptacle n. 2, 3); of or relating to a receptacle.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [adjective] > having or relating to parts > relating to or having receptacle
receptaculaceous1760
receptacular1800
gynobaseous1836
thalamic1860
gynobasic1861
hypanthial1880
1800 J. Hull Elements Bot. I. 30 Receptacular,..attached to the receptacle.
1803 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 16 596 Germen supported upon a receptacular column.
1888 G. Henslow Origin Floral Struct. x. 89 The calyx or receptacular tube.—This organ consists of a cellular sheath..free from or adherent to the ovary.
1898 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 190 629 Immature, receptacular portions of the frond of F. platycarpus..are found when cut open to present a woolly appearance to the interior.
1952 P. Mann Systematics Flowering Plants ii. 156 From the point of view of involucral bracts, receptacular scales, and pappus, the Helianthoideae are the least advanced.
1971 Bryologist 74 8 The receptacular flaps opened up, with some spores and elaters still remaining loose inside.
1995 Bot. Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 118 193 Stamen numbers can be increased by the building-up of complex primordia or by secondary receptacular growth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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