Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, an indehiscent, many-celled superior fruit, containing but few seeds; a carcerule. The cells cohere to a common style, as about a common axis.

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

  • noun (Bot.) A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows.

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

  • noun botany A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain relatively few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows.

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek flesh + base.

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