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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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