Botany. Originally: a dry covering of a seed; a dry (non-fleshy) fruit. In later use spec.: a type of dry fruit formed from a single carpel, which…
= conceptacle, n. (in various senses).
Botany. = follicle, n. 3a. Obsolete.
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