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Physostomi :: Physostomi (n. pl.) An order of fishes in which the air bladder is provided with a duct, and the ventral fins, when present, are abdominal. It includes the salmons, herrings, carps, catfishes, and others..

Gymnocarpous :: Gymnocarpous (a.) Naked-fruited, the fruit either smooth or not adherent to the perianth..

Pistil :: Pistil (n.) The seed-bearing organ of a flower. It consists of an ovary, containing the ovules or rudimentary seeds, and a stigma, which is commonly raised on an elongated portion called a style. When composed of one carpel a pistil is simple; when composed of several, it is compound. See Illust. of Flower, and Ovary..

Gudgeon :: Gudgeon (n.) A small European freshwater fish (Gobio fluviatilis), allied to the carp. It is easily caught and often used for food and for bait. In America the killifishes or minnows are often called gudgeons..

Podocarp :: Podocarp (n.) A stem, or footstalk, supporting the fruit..

Artocarpous :: Artocarpous (a.) Of or pertaining to the breadfruit, or to the genus Artocarpus..

Sycite :: Sychnocarpous (a.) Having the capacity of bearing several successive crops of fruit without perishing; as, sychnocarpous plants..

Gonophore :: Gonophore (n.) A lengthened receptacle, bearing the stamens and carpels in a conspicuous manner..

Acanthocarpous :: Acanthocarpous (a.) Having the fruit covered with spines.

Cashew :: Cashew (n.) A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long..

Carpenter :: Carpenter (n.) An artificer who works in timber; a framer and builder of houses, ships, etc..

Radiale :: Radiale (n.) The bone or cartilage of the carpus which articulates with the radius and corresponds to the scaphoid bone in man.

Stone :: Stone (n.) The hard endocarp of drupes; as, the stone of a cherry or peach. See Illust. of Endocarp..

Pericarp :: Pericarp (n.) The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume..

Polycarpous :: Polycarpous (a.) Bearing fruit repeatedly, or year after year..

Escarp :: Escarp (v. t.) To make into, or furnish with, a steep slope, like that of a scrap..

Regmacarp :: Regmacarp (n.) Any dry dehiscent fruit.

Gromwell :: Gromwell (n.) A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera..

Peascod :: Peascod (n.) The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea..

Gynoecium :: Gynoecium (n.) The pistils of a flower, taken collectively. See Illust. of Carpophore..

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