Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing no fruit; sterile.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, not producing fruit; sterile; barren.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Not producing fruit; unfruitful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Not producing
fruit ;unfruitful ;sterile .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective producing no fruit
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek ἄκαρπος (akarpos, "fruitless"), from privative ἀ- + καρπός (karpos, "fruit").
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