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Producing fruit below the ground.

, gummy, coloring matter, extracted from the colorless juice of the Otaheite chestnut (Inocarpus edulis).

Between the carpal bone; as, intercarpal articulations, ligaments.

Between the metacarpal bones.

Fossil fruit; a fruit petrified; a carpolite.

One carpel of an umbelliferous fruit. See Cremocarp.

The middle layer of a pericarp which consists of three distinct or dissimilar layers. Gray.

Of or pertaining to the metacarpus. -- n.

That part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges. In man it consists of five bones. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.

A monocarpic plant.

Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond.

Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc.

Having the pericarp thick.

The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.

Of or pertaining to a pericarp.

Same as Acraspeda.

A branch of a plumularian hydroid specially modified in structure for the protection of the gonothecæ.

An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.

Any pleurocarpic moss.

in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to Ant: acrocarpous.