Hypophysis

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 51

hī-pof′i-sis, n. the pituitary body of the brain: ( bot. ) an inflated part of the pedicel under the capsule, in mo es; in flowering plants, a cell of the embryo producing the primary root and root-cap. [Gr. hypo , under, phyein , to grow.]