Definitions For Anthocarp

Noun

ANTHOCARP (plural ANTHOCARPs) (botany) Any of various forms of accessory fruit, fruits in which part of the perianth tissue remains attached to the fruit, as part of the mechanism of dispersal. (botany) Lower part of a perianth containing the fruit, the upper part having dropped away, well seen in plants of the family nyctaginaceae.Chittenden, Fred J. Ed., Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening, Oxford 1951 (botany) In the nyctaginaceae, individual apetalous flowers have a tubular, petaloid calyx that resembles a sympetalous corolla. The lower portion of the calyx tightly enwraps the one-seeded achene and is persistent around the fruit as an anthocarp. The calyx base plus the enclosed seed-bearing achene is the dispersal unit, unit of dispersal. (botany) A collective, composite or aggregated fruit formed from an entire inflorescence, as in the sorosis of a pineapple or the syconus of a fig. (botany) A fruit resulting from many flowers, such as the pineapple; a fruit of which the perianth or the torus forms part.{{cite book, author=Allied Chambers, title=The Chambers Dictionary, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pz2ORay2HWoC&pg=PA63, year=1998, publisher=Allied Publishers, isbn=978-81-86062-25-8, pages=63–}} (botany) A composite false fruit, consisting of the actual fruit and the perianth.Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 (botany) A fruit formed by the union of the floral organs or part of them, with the fruit itself, as in Nyctagineae; also applied to fruits with accessories, sometimes termed pseudocarps, as the strawberry and pineapple.Jackson, Benjamin, Daydon; A Glossary of Botanic Terms with their Derivation and Accent; Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. London, 4th ed 1928