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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A dry fruit that splits at maturity into two or more closed, one-seeded parts, as in the carrot or mallow.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In botany, a dry fruit which at maturity splits or otherwise separates into two or more one-seeded indehiscent carpels. The component carpels of such a fruit are called cocci. See regma, and cut under coccus.

Wiktionary

  1. n. botany A dry fruit that develops from multiple carpels and splits into multiple, one-seeded mericarps at maturity

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one-seeded portions.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed

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  • “As i reverend, when a benniseed cystoplegia a capital schizocarp to a pq, the strip is brownshirt to the end of the tiredly gene.”

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  1. fruit

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  1. schizocarpous
  1. nutlet
  1. schizocarpic
  1. schizo-
  1. carcerule
  1. Coccus
  1. regma

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  1. botany
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  1. shizocarp

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  • avivamagnolia
    n. - compound fruit splitting into several one-seeded ones. schizocarpic, schizocarpous, adj. schizogenesis, schizogony, n. reproduction by division. schizoid, adj. pertaining to, like or suffering from schizophrenia. schizophrenia, n. mental disorder with 'splitting' of personality and separation from environment. schizophyte n., plant reproducing only by multiple fission. schizothymia, n. schizophrenia- like mental disorder. schizotrichia, n. splitting of hair. Jan 18, 2009

  • reesetee Ooh! Neat word! Apr 10, 2007

  • trivet A dry fruit that splits at maturity into two or more closed, one-seeded parts, as in the carrot or mallow. Apr 10, 2007

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