Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That part of an anthocarpous fruit which does not belong to the pericarp. Also called
anthocarp or anthocarpium. Seeanthocarpous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) That portion of an anthocarpous fruit which is not derived from the ovary, as the soft part of a strawberry or of a fig.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The portion of an
anthocarpous fruit that is not derived from theovary , such as the soft part of astrawberry orfig .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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