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Definition of Schizocarp
1. Noun. A dry dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more parts each with a single seed.
Definition of Schizocarp
1. n. A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one-seeded portions.
Definition of Schizocarp
1. Noun. (botany) A dry fruit that develops from multiple carpels and splits into multiple, one-seeded mericarps at maturity ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Schizocarp
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Medical Definition of Schizocarp
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Schizocarp
Literary usage of Schizocarp
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"17), Entada, Coronilla and the gum-arabic plant (Acacia arabica), the fruit
becomes a schizocarp by the formation of transverse partitions from the folding ..."
2. Essentials of vegetable pharmacognosy: A Treatise on Structural Botany by Henry Hurd Rusby, Smith Ely Jelliffe (1895)
"The typical schizocarp should be defined as a fruit which divides ... A di-carpel-
lary schizocarp, the carpels attached toward their summits to a slender ..."
3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, F. W. Oliver (1895)
"The same in longitudinal section. s schizocarp of ... schizocarp of Carum carpi.
All the figs- enlarged. (After Baillon.) case in a very large number of ..."
4. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"Fruit commonly a schizocarp. Leaves generally opposite. ... The fruit is commonly
a four-partite schizocarp, more rarely a drupe or capsule. ..."
5. A Manual of Structural Botany: An Introductory Textbook for Students of by Henry Hurd Rusby (1911)
"As in most classes of fruits, we find here a gradation into other classes, most
commonly into the schizocarp. A peculiar fruit, in its general structure ..."
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