Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having or consisting of three cocci or carpels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having three cocci, or roundish carpels.
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- adjective botany Having
three cocci .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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Its fruit is tricoccous, hoary on the outside with a calix divided into 5 parts.
A Voyage to New Holland William Dampier 1683
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Thus Euphorbia and Thea have a tricoccous fruit; Geranium has a pentacoc - cous or five-grained fruit;
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Capfules are twin or double (didymaj — di - coccousy or two-grained — tricoccous, or three - grained. —
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