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Definition of Mericarps
1. mericarp [n] - See also: mericarp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mericarps
Literary usage of Mericarps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged by Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott (1834)
"mericarps convex or (rarely) acute on the hack : primary ridges 5, sometimes
obsolete; ... Fruit laterally compressed and flattened. mericarps without ..."
2. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1839)
"Fruit of 2 globular, closely combined »reds (mericarps of Don^, rough with very
minute bristles, and crowned with the somewhat enlarged calyx. ..."
3. A Manual Flora of Madeira and the Adjacent Island of Porto Santo and the by Richard Thomas Lowe (1868)
"... pet. not longer than the ov. not apiculate, scarcely spreading. Fr. notched,
transversely reniform, |-f millim. long, f-1 millim. broad; mericarps ..."
4. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"The dorsal and lateral ridges of Cuminum Cyminum are the most prominent, while
the intermediate ones are small, making the mericarps triangular in ..."
5. Agricultural Botany: Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1921)
"The 'seeds' (mericarps) are oblong or oval; almost flat on the inner side; ...
The mericarps are thin and broadly oval in shape, about 6 to 8 mm. long, ..."
6. A Flora of Shropshire by William Allport Leighton (1841)
"mericarps with very slender ridges, the 3 intermediate ones equidistant, ...
mericarps with 3 filiform, elevated dorsal ridges, lateral ones expanded into ..."
7. Text-book of Botany: Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1875)
"... and appearing like separate fruits, and hence termed mericarps, while the
whole fruit ... and surrounding the style as distinct mericarps (here called ..."
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