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re·cep·ta·cle (rĭ-sĕp'tə-kəl)  |
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin receptāculum, from receptāre, to receive again, frequentative of recipere, to receive. See receive.]
| Architecture: receptacle |
A device which is installed in an outlet box to receive a plug for the supply of electric current to an appliance or portable equipment.
| Gardener's Dictionary: receptacle |
The expanded tip of a flower stalk or axis that bears the floral organs or the group of flowers in a head. Occasionally, as in strawberries, the receptacle develops into a fruitlike form.
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
— Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
| Wikipedia: Receptacle |
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In botany, the receptacle is the thickened part of a stem from which the flower organs grow. In some accessory fruits, for example in pomes or strawberries, the receptacle gives rise to the edible part of the fruit.
In phycology, receptacles are structures at the ends of branches of algae mainly in the brown algae or Heterokontophyta in the Order Fucales. They are specialised structures which contain the reproductive organs called conceptacles.[1] Receptacles also function as a structure that captures food.
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| Translations: Receptacle |
Dansk (Danish)
n. - beholder, samlekar, opbevaringssted, blomsterbund
Nederlands (Dutch)
vergaarbak, houder, bloem-/vruchtbodem, ontvangende holte/ orgaan, stopcontact
Français (French)
n. - récipient
Deutsch (German)
n. - Behälter, Gefäß
Italiano (Italian)
ricettacolo
Português (Portuguese)
n. - receptáculo (m), recipiente (m)
Русский (Russian)
сосуд, гнездо, патрон, резервуар, коробка
Español (Spanish)
n. - recipiente, receptáculo
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - behållare
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
容器, 贮藏器, 花托, 贮藏所, 囊托
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 容器, 貯藏器, 花托, 貯藏所, 囊托
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 容器, 置場, 避難所, 生殖器床, 花床, コンセント, 入れ物
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) وعاء أو اناء
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - כלי-קיבול, שקע, מצעית (בוטניקה)
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