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Au`to*car"pous (?), Au`to*car"pi*an (?), a. [Auto- + Gr. fruit.] Bot.
Consisting of the pericarp of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.
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