hemicarp

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek

Noun

hemicarp (plural hemicarps)

  1. (botany) One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hemicarp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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