Dictionary Entry
receptacle
receptacle is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 20 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.
- 2noun
The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.
- 3noun
The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers.
- 4noun
An intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or other matters.
- 5noun
A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.
- 6noun
a container that is used to put or keep things in
- 7noun
an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert
- 8noun
enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts
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