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 dryindehiscent cells , which contain relatively fewseeds andcohere about a commonstyle , as in themallows .
Etymologies
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From Ancient Greek flesh + base.
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