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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, a five-celled fruit otherwise like a cremocarp.

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

  • noun (Bot.) A dry fruit composed of five carpels, which are covered by an epigynous calyx and separate at maturity.

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