Apocarpous

Word APOCARPOUS
Character 10
Hyphenation ap o car pous
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Apocarpous"

What do we mean by apocarpous?

Having carpels that are free from one another. Used of a single flower with two or more separate pistils, as in roses. adjective

In botany, having the carpels of the gynœcium separate.

Either entirely or partially separate, as the carpels of a compound pistil; -- opposed to syncarpous. adjective

Having carpels that are not joined adjective

(of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses adjective

Having carpels that are not joined

Synonyms and Antonyms for Apocarpous

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The word "apocarpous" in example sentences

If the pistil be apocarpous, and the carpels arranged spirally on an elevated thalamus, it then frequently happens that the carpels, especially the upper ones, become carried up with the prolonged axis, more widely separated one from the other than below, and particularly liable to undergo various petalloid or foliaceous changes as in proliferous _Roses_, _Potentilla_, &c. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)

It is useful to be able to classify a flower and to know that the buttercup belongs to the Family Ranunculaceae, with petals free and definite, stamens hypogynous and indefinite, pistil apocarpous. ❋ Arabella B. Buckley (1884)

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