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PIPS |
Fruit seeds |
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ANISE |
The fruit or seeds of this plant. |
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RACHITIS |
A disease which produces abortion in the fruit or seeds. |
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FRUCTIFICATION |
The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or
spores. |
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CARPOLOGY |
That branch of botany which relates to the structure of
seeds and fruit. |
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PLACENTA |
The part of a pistil or fruit to which the ovules or
seeds are attached. |
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SHED |
To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a
covering or envelope. |
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UVA |
A small pulpy or juicy fruit containing several seeds and
having a thin skin, as a grape. |
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CONIUM |
A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered,
umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit ("seeds") and decompound
leaves. |
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BERRY |
A small fruit that is pulpy or succulent throughout, having
seeds loosely imbedded in the pulp, as the currant, grape, blueberry. |
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ABANGA |
A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds
of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest. |
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SARCOBASIS |
A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which
contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the
mallows. |
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CORIANDER |
An umbelliferous plant, the Coriandrum sativum, the
fruit or seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in
medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative. |
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LOQUAT |
The fruit of the Japanese medlar (Photinia Japonica). It is
as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or
five large seeds. Also, the tree itself. |
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CAPSULE |
A dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or
carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the
poppy, the flax, the lily, etc. |
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CARDAMOM |
The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several
plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere,
and much used as a condiment, and in medicine. |
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CONE |
The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir,
cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which
has one or two seeds at its base. |
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CORE |
The heart or inner part of a thing, as of a column, wall,
rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit,
containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince. |
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CACAO |
A small evergreen tree (Theobroma Cacao) of South America
and the West Indies. Its fruit contains an edible pulp, inclosing seeds
about the siz... |
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RICINUS |
...g but one
species (R. communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled,
and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expre... |
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PEACH |
A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or
two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which
bears it (Pru... |
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ECBALLIUM |
...e
single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting
cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds,
toget... |
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DURION |
The fruit of the durio. It is oval or globular, and eight
or ten inches long. It has a hard prickly rind, containing a soft,
cream-colored pulp... |
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QUINCE |
The fruit of a shrub (Cydonia vulgaris) belonging to the
same tribe as the apple. It somewhat resembles an apple, but differs in
having many se... |
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POMEGRANATE |
The fruit of the tree Punica Granatum; also, the tree
itself (see Balaustine), which is native in the Orient, but is
successfully cultivated in... |