receptacle

A container that holds items or matter.

The expanded tip of a flower stalk or axis that bears the floral parts or the florets of the flower head.

A fitting connected to a power supply and equipped to receive a plug.

That which receives or holds anything for rest or deposit; a storing-place; a repository; a container; any space, open or closed, that serves for reception and keeping.

In botany:

In a single flower, the more or less enlarged and peculiarly developed apex of the peduncle or pedicel, upon which all the organs of the flower are directly or indirectly borne: the Linnæan and usual name: same as the more specific and proper torus of De Candolle and the thalamus of Tournefort.

In an inflorescence, the axis or rachis of a head or other short dense cluster; most often. the expanded disk-like summit of the peduncle in Compositæ (dandelion, etc.) on which are borne the florets of the head, surrounded by an involucre of bracts; a clinanthium. In contrast with the above, sometimes called common receptacle.

In an ovary, same as placenta. 4.

Among cryptogams

In the vascular class, the placenta.