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schizocarps

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-005655

Literally, splitting fruit. A dry compound fruit, as in the mallow family, splitting up at maturity into several indehiscent 1-seeded carpels (mericarps); the peculiar dry twin-fruit of umbellifer, or parsnip family (cremocarp) is a form of schizocarp.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-005655
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectAnimals, Livestock, One Health
Synonymscarcerule; cremocarp; lomentum; regma
ReferencesGlossary of Botanical Terms, USDA; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsofruits
TranslationsSpanish: esquizocarpios
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-005655",
  "term": "schizocarps",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Literally, splitting fruit. A dry compound fruit, as in the mallow family, splitting up at maturity into several indehiscent 1-seeded carpels (mericarps); the peculiar dry twin-fruit of umbellifer, or parsnip family (cremocarp) is a form of schizocarp.",
  "synonyms": [
    "carcerule",
    "cremocarp",
    "lomentum",
    "regma"
  ],
  "subject": "Animals, Livestock, One Health",
  "see_also": [
    "fruits"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Glossary of Botanical Terms, USDA",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "esquizocarpios"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/schizocarps/"
}

Record 5,655 of 6,908 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.