Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, characterized by thickened floral envelops: applied to certain fruits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having some portion of the
floral envelopes attached to thepericarp to form thefruit .
Etymologies
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antho- + -carpous
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-- Fruit of the pine-apple (_Ananas sativa_), consisting of numerous flowers and bracts united together so as to form a collective or anthocarpous fruit.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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