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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