Definition of Procarp

1. a female sexual organ in certain algae [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Procarp

procaines
procambia
procambial
procambium
procambiums
procapitalist
procapitalists
procapsid
procapsids
procarbazine
procarbazines
procarboxypeptidase
procarboxypeptidases
procarcinogen
procarcinogens
procarps
procaryote
procaryotes
procaryotic
procaspase
procatalepsis
procatarctic
procatarctics
procatarxis
procathedral
procathedrals
procced
proccing
procede

Literary usage of Procarp

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"A procarp showing granular matter, which may possibly be a nucleus, ... procarp with withered trichogyne; two cells between carpogonium and thallus cell. ..."

2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The carpogonium is a branch of one or several cells, the terminal cell (procarp) extending into a long slender process, ... The procarp is ..."

3. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"... auxiliary cells are not developed in the same procarp, but in distinct organs. ... the whole or part of which goes to form the procarp; in the Coral- ..."

4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"... the terminal cell (procarp) extending into a long slender process, ... has been found to pass down the inside and fuse with the nucleus of the procarp. ..."

5. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"The carpogonium is a branch of one or several cells, the terminal cell (procarp) extending into a long slender process, the tri, ..."

6. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"... branch showing antheridia no special ad van- forming at the tips; 147, the procarp, consisting of trichogyne jagg ;n multiplying and carpogonium (in the ..."

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