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In ascomycetous fungi, the spherical, discoid, or cup-shaped body within which the asci are collected, and which constitutes the mature fructification. The different forms are known in mycology under distinct names. Called also spore fruit.

Consisting of the pericarp of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.

[More fully chenille Axminster.] A variety of Turkey carpet, woven by machine or, when more than 27 inches wide, on a hand loom, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (175…

Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove. Brande & C.

Having stems which bear flowers and fruit year after year, as most trees and shrubs.

The peculiar fruit of fennel, carrott, parsnip, and the like, consisting of a pair of carpels pendent from a supporting axis.

A kind of European carp (Carasius vulgaris), inferior to the common carp; -- called also German carp.

A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.

A genus of trees found in the East Indies, some species of which produce a fragrant resin, other species wood oil. The fruit has two long wings.

frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc. [Written also encarpa.]

The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.

The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp.

und about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach. See Scarp.

The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.

Naked-fruited, the fruit either smooth or not adherent to the perianth. Gray.

One portion of a fruit that spontaneously divides into halves.

The power of producing two kinds of reproductive bodies, as in Amphicarpæa, in which besides the usual pods, there are others underground.

Characterized by heterocarpism.

A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew.