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A stem, or footstalk, supporting the fruit.

Composed of several or numerous carpels; -- said of such fruits as the orange.

Bearing fruit repeatedly, or year after year.

That portion of an anthocarpous fruit which is not derived from the ovary, as the soft part of a strawberry or of a fig.

Any dry dehiscent fruit.

Having perennial rootstocks or bulbs, but annual flowering stems; -- said of all perennial herbs.

the fleshy part of a stone fruit, situated between the skin, or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

The slope of the ditch nearest the parapet; the escarp.

A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one- seeded portions.

A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia.

Situated above, or in the upper part of, the carpus.

ng the capacity of bearing several successive crops of fruit without perishing; as, sychnocarpous plants.

A kind of aggregate fruit in which the ovaries cohere in a solid mass, with a slender receptacle, as in the magnolia; also, a similar multiple fruit, as a mulberry.

Same as Syncarp.

Composed of several carpels consolidated into one ovary.

Composed of four carpels.

Rough-fruited. Gray.

A kind of carpet woven with loops like the Brussels, but differing from it in having the loops cut so as to form an elastic velvet pile; -- so called because made originally at Wilton, England.

Having yellow fruit.

Bearing fruit which becomes hard or woody.