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Sympatric
Plants; Botany

Of two or more species, having coincident or ovarlapping ranges of distribution. Cf. Allopatric.

Accumbent
Plants; Botany

Of the orientation of an embryo, with the radicle lying against the edges of the two cotyledons.

Pome
Plants; Botany

A fleshy (false) fruit, formed from an inferior ovary, in which the receptacle or hypanthium has enlarged to enclose the true fruit.

Achene
Plants; Botany

A dry, indehiscent fruit formed from a superior ovary of one carpel and containing one seed which is free from the pericarp. Lactuca viminea (often applied, less correctly, to the one-seeded fruits ...

Samara
Plants; Botany

A dry, indehiscent fruit with its wall expanded into a wing.

Cypsela
Plants; Botany

A dry, indehiscent, one-seeded fruit formed from an inferior ovary. Cf. Achene.

Caryopsis
Plants; Botany

A dry, indehiscent, one-seeded fruit in which the seed coat (testa) is closely fused to the fruit wall (characteristic of grasses).

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