The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . between percept and concept. Athenieum, No. 3193, p. 12. receptacle (re-septa-kl, formerly also resep-tii-kl), n. [<OF. receptacle, F. rcceptacle=P\ = Sp. rcceptdculo = Pg. receptaculo= It. ricettdcolo, recettaculo, < L. receptacHlum,a rcceptaelo, place to receive or store thingsin, < reciperc, pp. receptiis, receive, hold, con-tain: see receive.] 1. That which receives orholds anything for rest or deposit; a storing-place; arepository; a
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . between percept and concept. Athenieum, No. 3193, p. 12. receptacle (re-septa-kl, formerly also resep-tii-kl), n. [<OF. receptacle, F. rcceptacle=P\ = Sp. rcceptdculo = Pg. receptaculo= It. ricettdcolo, recettaculo, < L. receptacHlum,a rcceptaelo, place to receive or store thingsin, < reciperc, pp. receptiis, receive, hold, con-tain: see receive.] 1. That which receives orholds anything for rest or deposit; a storing-place; arepository; a container; any space,open or closed, that serves for reception andkeeping. As in a vaalt, an ancient receptacle. Where, for these many hundred yeai-s, the bones Of all my buried ancestors ai-e packd. Shak., R. and J., iv. 3. 39. Least his neitriibors countrey might be an harborughor receptacle of his foes and aduersaries. Hall, Edw. III., an. 10. 2. In hot.: (a) In a single flower, the more orless enlarged and peculiarly developed apex ofthe peduncle or pedicel, upon which all the or-gans of the flower are directly or indirectly. VaHous Fonns of Receptacle (r). a, nandcHon iTartJxttcum metimes temted pnrper recep-tacie. (h) lu an intloresceuce, the axis or raehisof a head or other short dense cluster; mostoften, the expanded disk-like summit of the pe-duncle in fV);«;)avi7,T (dandelion, etc.) on whichare borne the florets of the head, surrounded byan involucre o
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