ADJECTIVE
- (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses
How To Use apocarpous In A Sentence
- 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.
- Flowers are apocarpous, with up to five carpels (usually two to three).
- The first bifurcation is shortly above the transition from the syncarpous to the apocarpous zone, the second bifurcation is somewhat higher up.
- It is useful to be able to classify a flower and to know that the buttercup belongs to the Family Ranunculaceae, with petals free and definite, stamens hypogynous and indefinite, pistil apocarpous. The Fairy-Land of Science
