Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being heterocarpous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The power of producing two kinds of reproductive bodies, as in
Amphicarpæa , in which besides the usual pods, there are others underground.
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- noun botany The power of producing two kinds of
reproductive body, as in Amphicarpaea, in which besides the usualpods there are others underground.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek different + fruit + -ism.
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