Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gynophore

Gynophore (jin"o*fōr) , noun

[Greek gynh` woman, female + fe`rein to bear, produce: compare French gynophore.]

1.
(Botany) The pedicel raising the pistil or ovary above the stamens, as in the passion flower. — Lindley
2.
(Zoology) One of the branches bearing the female gonophores, in certain Siphonophora.