Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Gynaeceum \Gyn`[ae]*ce"um\, Gynaecium \Gyn`[ae]*ci"um\, n. [L.,
   fr. Gr. ? women's apartments, fr. ? a woman.]
   The part of a large house, among the ancients, exclusively
   appropriated to women. [Written also {gyneceum}, {gynecium}.]
   --Tennyson.