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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In bot, a fleshy receptacle with numerous ovaries, as that of a straw-berry.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A receptacle which bears many ovaries.
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- noun botany, mycology A receptacle which bears many ovaries.
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