gynophagite (jinofajit)

[ He preys upon the weaker sex, and is a Gynophagite. Bulwer, My Novel, iii. 22. gynophore (jin'ō-for), n. [ γυνή , female, + -φόρος , φέρειν = E. bear1 . Cf. gynecophore.] 1. In bot ., an elongation or internode of the receptacle of a flower, bearing the gyncæcium, as the stipe of a pod in some Cruciferæ and Cap par i dace a . -2. In Hydrozoa , the branch of a Flower gonoblastidium which bears female Gynandropsis. gonophores, or those reproductive receptacles or generative buds which contain ova only, as distinguished from male gonophores or androphores. See cut under go no