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What does apocarpous mean?

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Adjective
  1. (botany) Having carpels that are not joined
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The first bifurcation is shortly above the transition from the syncarpous to the apocarpous zone, the second bifurcation is somewhat higher up.
The pistil is apocarpous, consisting of several distinct carpels, each with ovary, style and stigma.
Early angiosperm fruits were apocarpous, with several free carpels.
In a sense, these taxa have gynoecia that are effectively apocarpous.
Flowers are apocarpous, with the stigmas borne at the end of a long style.
In many members of the rose and buttercup families, each flower contains a number of similar single-carpelled pistils, separate and distinct, which together represent what is known as an apocarpous gynoecium.

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