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#* {{RQ:Mary Shelley Frankenstein|chapter=III|passage=Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a churchyard was to me merely the '''receptacle''' of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|title=Dorset Pauper Lunatic Asylum|magazine=The Crypt, or Receptacle for Things Past, and West of England Magazine|series=New Series|location=Winchester, Hampshire|publisher=Published by Charles Henry Wheeler, Public Library, High-Street|month=April|year=1829|volume=I, part I|issue=IV|pages=147–148|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=8HIPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA147|oclc=4681193|passage=It must be conceded that a common poor-house is by no means a fit '''receptacle''' for lunatics, under any consideration either of the cure of the patients, or the comfort of the other inmates.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Y. H. Hui|chapter=Sanitation Performance Standards|editor=Y. H. Hui|title=Handbook of Meat and Meat Processing|edition=2nd|location=Boca Raton, Fla.|publisher={{w|:CRC Press}}|year=2012|page=733|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=RWPRBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA733|isbn=978-1-4398-3683-5|passage='''Receptacles''' used for storing inedible material must be of such material and construction that their use will not result in the adulteration of any edible product or in the creation of insanitary conditions. Such '''receptacles''' must not be used for storing any edible product and must bear conspicuous and distinctive marking to identify the permitted uses.}}
# {{lb|en|botany}} The part of the [[flower]] [[stalk]] ([[peduncle]] or [[pedicel]]) to which the [[floral]] parts are [[attach#Verb|attached]]; a [[thalamus]], a [[torus]].
#* {{quote-book|en|author=F[ocko] Weberling|tlr=R. J. Pankhurst|chapter=Morphology of Flowers|title=Morphology of Flowers and Inflorescences|edition=1st paperback|location=Cambridge|publisher={{w|:Cambridge University Press}}|year=1992|page=19|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZlOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA19|isbn=978-0-521-43832-2|passage=The form of the flower is highly dependent on the structure of the '''receptacle''', even though this may not always be obvious externally. The '''receptacle''' is also called the ''floral axis'', or it is sometimes called the ''torus'', which may be translated as "swelling". These expressions ''per se'' imply that, although in the majority of cases the '''receptacle''' is greatly reduced, it is frequently thickened in a capitate form or broadened into a definitely disc-like shape.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Ian Clarke; Helen Lee|chapter=The Structure of Flowers|title=Name that Flower: The Identification of Flowering Plants|edition=2nd|location=Carlton, Vic.|publisher=Melbourne University Press, {{w|Melbourne University Publishing}}|year=2003|page=7|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=YfBWdgKj7wUC&pg=PA7|isbn=978-0-522-85060-4|passage=A basic flower {{...}} has four series of parts arranged in concentric ''whorls'' (or rings) on the '''''receptacle''''', which is the name given to the expanded end of the ''pedicel'' (flower stalk).}}
## In the [[Asteraceae]] ([[aster]] or [[sunflower]] [[family]]), the end of the peduncle to which all of the [[floret]]s of the [[flower head]] are attached.
##* {{quote-book|en|author=Robert H. Mohlenbrock|chapter=Descriptions and Illustrations|title=Flowering Plants: Asteraceae, Part I|series=The Illustrated Flora of Illinois|location=Carbondale, Ill.|publisher={{w|:Southern Illinois University Press}}|year=2015|page=7|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=0sGBBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA7|isbn=978-0-8093-3367-7|passage=All flowers in a head share a common '''receptacle'''. The '''receptacle''' may be flat or convex. It may bear tiny scales called paleae. The paleae of a '''receptacle''' are referred to as chaff. '''Receptacles''' without paleae are said to be epaleate or naked. When the paleae are shed, they may leave either a smooth or a pitted '''receptacle'''. Occasionally, hairs, scales, or bristles may also be present on the '''receptacle'''.}}
# {{lb|en|phycology}} A [[structure]] at the end of a [[branch]] of an [[alga]] containing [[conceptacle]]s ([[reproductive]] [[organ]]s).
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Robert Kaye Greville|chapter={{smallcaps|Order I.}}—FUCOIDEÆ.|title=Algæ Britannicæ, or Descriptions of the Marine and Other Inarticulated Plants of the British Islands, Belonging to the Order Algæ; with Plates Illustrative of the Genera|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Maclachlan & Stewart, Edinburgh; and Baldwin & Cradock, London|year=1830|page=1|pageurl=https://books.google.com./books?id=bVRjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1|oclc=69235734|passage=Plants all marine, of an olive-brown or olive-green colour, becoming black on exposure to air; {{...}} Frutification, tubercles contained in distinct '''receptacles''', or embedded in the frond, and containing dark-coloured seeds surrounded with a pellucid limbus, which escape by a terminal pore.}}
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