Subapocarpous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Subapocarpous is an adjective meaning (botany) Having the carpels partially joined.
Meaning
(botany) Having the carpels partially joined.
Example Sentences
Apocarpous fruits are the ancestral state in Acronychia and subapocarpous and fully syncarpous fruits are derived.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include apocarpous, anthocarpous, acarpellous, acarpelous, carpellate, autocarpous.
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