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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, the frame-like placenta, across which the septum stretches, from which the valves of a capsule or other dehiscent fruit fall away in dehiscence, as in Cruciferæ, certain Papaveraceæ, Mimosa, etc.: sometimes incorrectly applied to the septum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The framework of some pods, as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun botany The framework of some pods, such as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off.

Etymologies

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Latin, doorcase.

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