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pseudocarp Bot.|ps-, ˈsjuːdəʊkɑːp|
[mod. f. pseudo- + Gr. καρπός fruit. In F. pseudocarpe, mod.L. pseudocarpus, -carpium.]
Term for a fruit formed by the modification and enlargement of other parts of the flower besides the ovary, or of parts of the plant not belonging to the flower.
a1835in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 50/1 Of spurious fruits, or pseudocarps.—In Pollichia the bracteas are fleshy, and therefore resemble fruit. 1875Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. 518 Sometimes the..series of..changes induced by fertilisation extends also to parts which do not belong to the ovary, and even to some which have never belonged to the flower... A structure of this kind (such as the fig, strawberry, and mulberry) may be termed a Pseudocarp. 1877Bennett tr. Thomé's Bot. (ed. 6) 405 The fleshy calyx-tube..of the rose forms an edible pseudocarp known as the hip.
So pseudoˈcarpous a. (also -ˈcarpious), of the nature of or pertaining to a pseudocarp.
1858Mayne Expos. Lex. 1031/2 Pseudocarpious. 1890Cent. Dict., Pseudocarpous. |