regmacarp

裂干果

发音

UK /ˈɹɛɡməkɑːp/
其它
US /ˈɹɛɡməkɑɹp/

词形变化

regmacarps 复数 regmacarps

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A fruit which, when mature, splits open to release its seeds; a dehiscent fruit.

    废旧 罕用 生物 植物学

词源

From Ancient Greek ῥῆγμα (rhêgma, “something broken or rent asunder; a breach, cleft, fracture”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”)) + English -carp (suffix meaning ‘part of a fruit or fruiting body’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kerp- (“to harvest; to pluck”)), modelled after schizocarp. The word was probably coined by the Scottish physician and botanist William Ramsay McNab (1844–1889): see the 1871 article from the journal Nature quoted below.

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