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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany: A fruit consisting of distinct achenes within a hollow receptacle, as in the rose.
- noun In discomycetous fungi and gymnocarpous lichens, the fruit, consisting of a disk-like hy-menium, which bears the asci exposed while maturing: same as
apothecium .
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