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Webster 1913 Edition

Autocarpian

{

Auˊto-car′pous

,

Auˊto-car′pi-an

, }

Adj.

[

Auto-

+ Gr.

καρπόσ

fruit.]

(Bot.)

Consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.