cremocarp Bot.
(ˈkrɛməʊkɑːp)
[irreg. f. Gr. κρεµα- to hang, κρεµαστός suspended, hanging + καρπός fruit.]
A species of fructification, occurring in the Umbelliferæ, in which the simple inferior fruit divides into two indehiscent one-seeded mericarps, which remain for some time suspended by their summits from the central axis.
| 1866 in Treas. Bot. 345. 1870 Bentley Bot. 312 The Cremocarp is an inferior, dry, indehiscent, two-celled, two-seeded fruit. 1885 Bennett & Dyer Sachs' Bot. ii. v. 537 A Cremocarp, where the fruit breaks up into two one-seeded halves or mericarps by the splitting of the dissepiment or ‘carpophore’ along its length. |