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schizocarp

noun

(Gr. schizein: to split; karpos, fruit) A dry indehiscent fruit formed from carpels that develop into separate one-seeded fragments called mericarps, which may be dehiscent, as in the regma, or indehiscent, as in the cremocarp and carcerulus.