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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The flask-shaped female gamete of a red alga, having a trichogyne at one end.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the female organ in the Carposporeæ; the cell, or system of cells, which after fertilization produces the sexual spores, in whatever manner; in Florideæ, the carpogenic cell or system; the procarp. The term is most properly used of Florideæ, which are the typical Carposporeæ.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin, from Greek karpogonos, bearing fruit : karpos, fruit; see carpo– + gonos, offspring; see genə- in Indo-European roots.]
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