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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In botany, having a naked fruit; especially, of lichens, having the apothecia expanded, saucer- or cup-shaped: applied to a large group of genera in which the apothecium is open and attached to the surface of the thallus.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. botany Having fruit that is either smooth or not adherent to the perianth.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Bot.) Naked-fruited, the fruit either smooth or not adherent to the perianth.

Etymologies

  1. gymno- + -carpous (Wiktionary)

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  1. gymnocarpeæ
  2. discomycetous
  3. ectothecal
  4. dirinaceæ
  5. ephebaceæ
  6. gyalectaceæ
  1. gyrophoraceæ
  2. heppiaceæ
  3. lecanactidaceæ
  4. roccellaceæ
  5. stictaceæ
  6. thelotremaceæ
  1. thelotrema
  2. umbilicariei
  3. usneëi
  4. omphalaria
  5. omphalarieæ
  6. pertusaria
  1. pertusariei
  2. symphycarpous
  3. cœnogoniaceæ
  4. collemei
  5. glyphideæ
  6. apothecium
  1. discocarp
  2. parmeliacei
  3. lecanactis
  4. umbilicaria
  5. urceolaria
  6. usnea

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