cremocarpn.
/ˈkrɛməʊkɑːp/ Botany.
A species of fructification, occurring in the Umbelliferæ, in which the simple inferior fruit divides into two indehiscent one-seeded mericarps, which remain for some time suspended by their summits from the central axis.
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1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iv. 321 The Cremocarp is an inferior, dry, indehiscent, two-celled, two-seeded fruit.
1866 in J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. 345.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. ii. v. 537 A Cremocarp, where the fruit breaks up into two one-seeded halves or mericarps by the splitting of the dissepiment or ‘carpophore’ along its length.
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