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noun
A fruit which, when mature, splits open to release its seeds; a dehiscent fruit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Ancient Greek ῥῆγμα (rhêgma, “something broken or rent asunder; a breach, cleft, fracture”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bhreg- (“to break”)) + English -carp (suffix meaning ‘part of a fruit or fruiting body’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“to harvest; to pluck”)), modelled after schizocarp. The word was probably coined by the Scottish physician and botanist William Ramsay McNab (1844–1889): see the 1871 article from the journal Nature quoted below.
