Word Finder - receptacle

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A container.

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The part of the flower stalk (peduncle or pedicel) to which the floral parts are attached; a thalamus, a torus.

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A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).

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An organ that receives and holds a secretion.

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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.

The disks fall down the tube G to a receptacle on the floor.

Place in a receptacle used only for this purpose.

By about the age of one, an infant can drop an object into a receptacle, compare objects held in both hands, stack objects, and nest them within each other.

If you removed a trash bag from a trash can, dispose of it in an outside receptacle as soon as you can.

She taught that each child is an individual-not a receptacle in which information is crammed.

The mass of glass, yielding, to its own weight and the pressure of air or steam, sinks downwards and adapts itself to any mould or receptacle beneath it.

C, invaginated head of Cysticercus cellulosae, showing the bent neck and receptacle r; X 30.

First the filled silk is placed into a holding receptacle, clamped fast, and presented to combing teeth.

They attach easily to the side of your home, with only an outdoor electrical receptacle needed for the motorized option.

Glass does keep coffee beans fresher than plastic; however, most people who go through the trouble of grinding coffee want freshly ground coffee for each pot brewed, making a glass receptacle unnecessary.

Additionally, the dust collection receptacle may be emptied without coming into contact with the dust using Dyson's one touch system.

The DC23 has a suction of 220 air watts per second; a 0.5-gallon receptacle, as well as a 21-foot cord with a 36-foot reach.

If animals or small children are present, dispose the turkey's wrappings and innards directly into your outside receptacle rather than placing them in your indoor garbage can.

Spills can occur when you are manually shoveling soot from your fireplace to an ash can or other receptacle.

The sporangia arise simultaneously in the sorus, which is borne on the under surface of the ordinary pinna; in those species with large sporangia the latter form a single circle, in others sporangia may also arise from the central part of the receptacle.

The sporangia in both genera are associated in sori enclosed by indusia springing from the base of the receptacle.

They consist either of microsporangia or megasporangia, which are arranged in basipetal succession on the receptacle.

The termination of the peduncle, or the part on which the whorls of the flower are arranged, is called the thalamus, torus or receptacle.

The pistil consists of several carpels, which are elevated on a stalk or gynophore prolonged from the receptacle.

The ovary enlarges, and, with the seeds enclosed, constitutes the fruit, frequently incorporated with which are other parts of the flower, as receptacle, calyx, &c. In gymnosperms the pollen-tubes, having penetrated a certain distance down the tissue of the nucellus, are usually arrested in growth for a longer or shorter period, sometimes nearly a year.

This system was abolished in New South Wales in 1840, after which date the island was the receptacle for all convicts not only from the United Kingdom, but from India and the colonies, and it was not until 18J3 that transportation to Van Diemen's Land finally ceased; in the same year representative institutions were introduced, the name of the colony was changed to Tasmania, and three years later the colony was granted responsible government.

In one case the spherical thallus was found seated in a cup-like receptacle.

A number of hairy linear bracts enclose the whole; internal to these occur 12 to 20 crowded pinnate leaves (sporophylls), with their apical portions bent over towards the axis of the flower, the bases of the petioles being fused laterally into a disk surrounding the base of the conical receptacle.

Mr Wieland's researches have, however, demonstrated the existence in flowers of this type of the remains of a disk at the base of the receptacle, between the receptacle and the surrounding bracts, to which staminate leaves were originally attached.

More importantly, Cancer Kylie is now going to become the receptacle for masses more of this twaddle.

But could the net provide the ideal receptacle for Gadda, this most spherical of writers?

The pouch is held directly over the toilet or a suitable receptacle for emptying.

The chamber pot (a wide jug with a handle) was the most common toilet receptacle.

Every boy had a tin or other receptacle containing jagged pieces of metal which had once been shells or even bombs.

The young shoots are chosen by many species of Cynipidae and their allies as a receptacle for their eggs, giving rise to a variety of gall-like excrescences, from which few oak trees are quite free.

The Lago Maggiore is also the receptacle of the waters of the Lago di Lugano on the east and the Lago d'Orta on the west.

Bacon nowhere enters upon the questions of how such a science is to be constructed, and how it can be expected to possess an independent method while it remains the mere receptacle for the generalizations of the several sciences, and consequently has a content which varies with their progress.

My dish is attached to a pole that resides in a receptacle designed for just such a purpose.

Unfortunately this is now a receptacle for village litter and dead leaves.

With a bagless vacuum cleaner, you need to shake out the dust, dirt, hair, and food particles into another trash receptacle, and it's not the easiest process out there.

By and large, self-cleaning litter boxes use a combination of clumping cat litter, an electronic sensor and an automated raking system to detect soiled clumps of litter and push them into a waiting receptacle.

Additionally you'll need to empty the dirt receptacle and/or change the trash bag.

The LitterMaid™ is a fully automated self-cleaning litter box that uses an electronic sensor and raking mechanism to scoop eliminations into a disposable receptacle.

It opens to reveal a storage compartment that can function as a cooler or as a trash receptacle, and it even includes an integrated checkers board.

A wedding card box is a simple receptacle couples may have at their reception to receive cards and greetings from their guests.

The receptacle where the ground coffee beans end up is made of glass.

The receptacle is, in consequence, extended more or less horizontally so that the flowers appear to be placed on the upper surface of horizontally spreading stalks.

The female flower consists of a cup-like receptacle, inseparate from the ovary, and bearing at its upper part a bract and two bracteoles.

Either they were altogether forbidden to partake of the sacrament, or the holy wafer was handed to them on the end of a stick, while a receptacle for holy water was reserved for their exclusive use.

The creator, or the divine intellect, with a view to the form of the good, and taking all forms as models, creates in a receptacle (vir080x i, Plato, Timaeus, 49 A) individual impressions which are called things but really change and become without attaining the permanence of being.

The term "receptacle" sometimes applied to these spore-bearing _ hyphae is better replaced by sporophore.

The plant is a small, dark brown, erect structure (receptacle) of a few cells; and 1-10 mm.

The receptacle ends above in appendages, each consisting of one or a few cells, some of which are the male organs, others the female organs, and others again may be barren hairs.

Frequently the influence of fertilization is felt beyond the ovary, and other parts of the flower take part in the formation of the fruit, as the floral receptacle in the apple, strawberry and others.

But this single receptacle could not absorb a tithe of the whole number of convicts awaiting exile.