(n.) A sexual zooid produced as a medusoid bud upon a hydroid, sometimes becoming a free hydromedusa, sometimes remaining attached. See Hydroidea, and Illusts. of Athecata, Campanularian, and Gonosome.
(n.) A lengthened receptacle, bearing the stamens and carpels in a conspicuous manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the basis of the findings of their investigation of the embryogenesis of the female genital tract, the authors advance a hypothesis concerning the origin of ambiguities between the genetic sex and the gonophoric sex which determine primary sexual characteristics observed in Morris' syndrome and in gonadoblastoma.
Gynophore
Definition:
(n.) The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower.
(n.) One of the branches bearing the female gonophores, in certain Siphonophora.