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Mericarp

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One of the two achene-like carpels which form a cremocarp or fruit in the Umbelliferæ: same as hemicarp.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One carpel of an umbelliferous fruit. See cremocarp.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An individual carpel of a schizocarp, having a single seed
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a carpel with one seed; one of a pair split apart at maturity
    • Word Usage
    "Each half fruit (mericarp) is tipped by a persistent style, and marked by vertical ribs, between or under which lie, in many genera, the oil tubes or vittæ."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    carpel  
    variant
    cremocarp  
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