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Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.

A general term for a fossil fruit, nut, or seed.

Of or pertaining to carpology.

One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology.

That branch of botany which relates to the structure of seeds and fruit.

Living on fruits; fruit-consuming.

A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.

A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel.

A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc.

A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algæ. -- Car`po*spor"ic (, a.

The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows.

Having the fruit covered with spines.

Having no carpels.

Not producing fruit; unfruitful.

Having a terminal fructification; having the fruit at the end of the stalk.

Producing fruit of two kinds, either as to form or time of ripening.

Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. Brande & C.

Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

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

Of or pertaining to the breadfruit, or to the genus Artocarpus.