Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having carpels that are free from one another. Used of a single flower with two or more separate pistils, as in roses.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having the carpels of the gynœcium separate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Either entirely or partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to
syncarpous .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having
carpels that are not joined
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses
Etymologies
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Examples
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If the pistil be apocarpous, and the carpels arranged spirally on an elevated thalamus, it then frequently happens that the carpels, especially the upper ones, become carried up with the prolonged axis, more widely separated one from the other than below, and particularly liable to undergo various petalloid or foliaceous changes as in proliferous _Roses_, _Potentilla_, &c.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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It is useful to be able to classify a flower and to know that the buttercup belongs to the Family Ranunculaceae, with petals free and definite, stamens hypogynous and indefinite, pistil apocarpous.
The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884
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