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Definition of Acarpous
1. Adjective. Producing no fruit.
Definition of Acarpous
1. a. Not producing fruit; unfruitful.
Definition of Acarpous
1. Adjective. (context: botany) Not producing fruit; unfruitful; sterile. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Acarpous
1. not producing fruit [adj]
Medical Definition of Acarpous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Acarpous
Literary usage of Acarpous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... carpels forming a sy acarpous ovary ; the albumen of the seeds fleshy ; and
the embryo spiral, filiform, ..."
2. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"... or of carpels coalescent into one body (Si/acarpous), or of all grades between
the two. Apocarpous pistils are simple ..."
3. A Laboratory Manual in Elementary Biology: An Inductive Study in Animal and by Emanuel Roth Boyer (1894)
"... destitute of petals. ap acarpous: (pistils): when the several pistils of the
same flower are separate. arboreous, arborescent: tree-like, ..."
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