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Meaning of HETEROCARPISM

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Het`er*o*car"pism\, n. [Hetero- + Gr.? fruit.]
(Bot.)
The power of producing two kinds of reproductive bodies, as
in Amphicarp[ae]a, in which besides the usual pods, there are
others underground.
 
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