Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Botany Producing no fruit; sterile.
- adj. Botany Having no fruit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany, not producing fruit; sterile; barren.
Wiktionary
- adj. botany Not producing fruit; unfruitful; sterile.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) Not producing fruit; unfruitful.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. producing no fruit
Etymologies
- Ancient Greek ἄκαρπος (akarpos, "fruitless"), from privative ἀ- + καρπός (karpos, "fruit"). (Wiktionary)
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Lists
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Rare Words - A
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Carp
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GRE Words
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
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learning
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Ada, or Ardor ~Vladmir Nabokov
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