carpophore

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  1. noun A slender stalk that supports each half of a dehisced fruit in many members of the parsley family.

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  • So also among plants with indefinite inflorescence, prolification seems very frequently to affect those wherein the axis is normally prolonged; thus it is common in _Dictamnus_, which plant has an internode supporting the pistil; it is frequent among _Umbelliferæ_, where the carpophore may be truly considered an axile production; it is common among _Rosaceæ_ and _Ranunculaceæ_, in many of which the axis or thalamus is well-marked, and it is by no means infrequent in the flowers of the Orange, where the floral internodes are also slightly elongated; on the other hand, there is no case on record in _Magnoliaceæ_, and some other orders where the floral part of the axis is at some point or other elongated; still, on the whole, there can be but little doubt that there is a real relation between prolification and the normal extension of the floral internodes. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
 

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  1. = French carpophore = Spanish carpóforo, from New Latin carpophorum, from Greek καρποφόρος, bearing fruit, from καρπός, fruit, + -φόρος, from φέρειν = English bear.
 

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