Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Naked-fruited, the fruit either smooth or not adherent to the perianth.
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- adjective botany Having
fruit that is eithersmooth or notadherent to theperianth .
Etymologies
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gymno- + -carpous
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