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Webster 1913 Edition

(kär′pō̍-līt)

Noun.

[Gr.

καρπόσ

fruit +

φυτόν

plant.]

(Bot.)

A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the

Ascomycetes

, etc.

☞ The division of algæ and fungi into four classes called Carpophytes, Oophytes, Protophytes, and Zygophytes (or

Carposporeæ

Oosporeæ

Protophyta

, and

Zygosporeæ

) was proposed by Sachs about 1875.

carpophyte ‎(plural carpophytes)

(botany) A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization.