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Definition of Apocarpous
1. Adjective. (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses.
Definition of Apocarpous
1. a. Either entirely or partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous.
Definition of Apocarpous
1. Adjective. (botany) Having carpels that are not joined ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Apocarpous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Apocarpous
Literary usage of Apocarpous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"Simple or apocarpous I'MiK may be solitary, several, or numerous. When indefinitely
numerous, they are seldom in one ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"The primitive dicotyledons were apocarpous plants which soon developed along two
diverging lines, characterized in the one case by the tendency of the ..."
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