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Carpophyte
Car′po-phyte
(kär′pō̍-līt)
, Noun.
[Gr.
καρπόσ
fruit + φυτόν
plant.] (Bot.)
A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the
Ascomycetes
, etc. ☞ The division of algæ and fungi into four classes called Carpophytes, Oophytes, Protophytes, and Zygophytes (or
Carposporeæ
, Oosporeæ
, Protophyta
, and Zygosporeæ
) was proposed by Sachs about 1875. Definition 2024
carpophyte
carpophyte
English
Noun
carpophyte (plural carpophytes)
- (botany) A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization.