1) Fruit
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a dry fruit formed from more than one carpel but breaking apart into individual carpels (mericarps) when ripe.
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A schizocarp p is a dry fruit that, when mature, splits up into mericarps. There are different definitions: ...
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a usually dry fruit which splits longitudinally into indehiscent or tardily dehiscent parts (mericarps or cocci)
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• (n.) A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one-seeded portions.
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A dry fruit formed from several carpels. When the fruit matures the single carpel sections fall apart. These sections of fruit do not open to release the seed, but remain intact until germination.
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(from the article `angiosperm`) ...such as corn. Nuts have a stony pericarp, and usually only a single seed in each carpel matures, as in acorns of oaks (Quercus; Fagales) and ...
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<botany> A dry fruit formed from more than one carpel but breaking apart into 1- carpel units when ripe. ... Compare: mericarp. ... (20 Oct 1998) ...
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A dry fruit that breaks longitudinally into separate segments at maturity, each segment retaining the seed(s) and usually corresponding to one of the carpels comprising the ovary.
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Schiz'o·carp noun [
Schizo- + Greek ... fruit.]
(Botany) A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one-seeded portions.
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schizocarp 1. A dry fruit that splits at maturity into two or more closed, one-seeded parts, as in the carrot or mallow. 2. A dry, dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more one-seeded carpels.
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noun a dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed
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Dry fruit that develops from two or more carpels and splits, when mature, to form separate one-seeded units known as mericarps. The mericarps may be dehiscent, splitting open to release the seed when ripe, as in
Geranium, or indehiscent, remaining closed once mature, as in mallow
Malva and plants of the Umb...
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