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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, fruit-producing: applied in algology to a cell, or system of cells, which develops after fertilization into spores and a mature cystocarp.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.

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  • adjective botany Producing fruit, or causing fruit to develop.

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Ancient Greek

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