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subapocarpous

subapocarpous adjective: having the carpels partially joined.

Adjective

subapocarpous (not comparable)

  1. Having the carpels partially joined.
    • Flowers often irregular; disc usually annular, adnate to the stamens or reduced to glands, rarely absent; ovary multicarpellary, syncarpous or subapocarpous; ovules one to two, rarely numerous in each carpel, ascending or pendulous; raphe usually ventral.1879, Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Alfred William Bennett, Text-book of Structural and Physiological Botany, Celastrales, page 407
    • Apocarpous fruits are the ancestral state in Acronychia and subapocarpous and fully syncarpous fruits are derived.2015 August 25, “Phylogeny of Acronychia (Rutaceae) and First Insights into Its Historical Biogeography and the Evolution of Fruit Characters”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of subapocarpous

From sub- + apocarpous.

Questions about subapocarpous

What does subapocarpous mean?
Subapocarpous means having the carpels partially joined.
What part of speech is subapocarpous?
Subapocarpous is an adjective.

Words near subapocarpous in the dictionary

  1. subaphyric
  2. subapical
  3. subapically
  4. subapices
  5. subapiculate
  6. subapocarpous
  7. subaponeurotic
  8. subapoptotic
  9. subapostolic
  10. subapparent
  11. subappellation

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