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Definition of Carpophore
1. Noun. A slender stalk that furnishes an axis for a carpel.
Definition of Carpophore
1. n. A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.
Definition of Carpophore
1. Noun. (botany) A thin stalk that raises the pistil above the stamens in some Umbelliferae ¹
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Definition of Carpophore
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Medical Definition of Carpophore
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpophore
Literary usage of Carpophore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flora of British India by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1885)
"Nutlets 4, attached somewhat obliquely to the conical carpophore, ... Nutlets 4,
depressed, often broadly adnate to the carpophore with rigid persistent ..."
2. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"This may extend up between the carpels and pass into, or the upper part become
a carpophore, a name properly applied to a portion of receptacle which is ..."
3. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"Pet large not crowned deep crimson or purple with bluish- black longitudinal
lines or streaks. carpophore none. ..."
4. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Fruit cordate : seed concave and longitudinally incurved : carpophore 2-parted.
7. Apium. Fruit broadly ovate : seed not concave : carpophore entire. ..."
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