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Car"po*phore (?), n. [Gr.
karpo`s fruit + &?; to bear.] (Bot.) A
slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the
carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.

Car"po*phyll (?), n. [Gr.
karpo`s fruit + &?; leaf.] (Bot.) A leaf
converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a
carpel. [See Illust. of Gymnospermous.]

Car"po*phyte (kär"p&osl;*līt),
n. [Gr. karpo`s fruit +
fyto`n plant.] (Bot.) A flowerless plant
which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the
red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc.

&fist; The division of algæ and fungi into four classes
called Carpophytes, Oöphytes, Protophytes, and Zygophytes
(or Carposporeæ, Oösporeæ,
Protophyta, and Zygosporeæ) was proposed by
Sachs about 1875.

Car"po*spore (?), n. [Gr.
karpo`s + -spore.] (Bot.) A kind of
spore formed in the conceptacles of red algæ. --
Car`po*spor"ic (&?;), a.


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