pseudocarpn.
/ˈs(j)uːdə(ʊ)kɑːp/, U.S. /ˈsudoʊˌkɑrp/ Botany.
A fruit that incorporates either parts of a plant not belonging to the flower, or parts of the flower besides the gynoecium (especially the receptacle); a false fruit.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > of specific structure or formation
pseudocarpa1836
ceratium1880
pseudo-fruit1887
a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 50/1 Of spurious fruits, or pseudocarps.—In Pollichia the bracteas are fleshy, and therefore resemble fruit.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. 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.
1877 A. W. Bennett tr. O. W. Thomé Text-bk. Struct. & Physiol. Bot. vi. 405 The fleshy calyx-tube..of the rose forms an edible pseudocarp known as a hip.
1954 E. W. Eckey Veg. Fats & Oils 460 The seeds of the rose are enclosed in a fleshy receptacle called the rose hip which is a pseudocarp or false fruit.
1996 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 23 477/1 Ficus..is distinguished as a genus by the synconium, a unique enclosed pseudocarp.
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1858 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 1031/2 Pseudocarpius, applied by Desvaux to fruits which are hidden by other parts,..as in the Coniferæ: pseudocarpious.
1890 Cent. Dict. Pseudocarpous, same as anthocarpous.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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