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Definition of Etaerio
1. an aggregated fruit like a blackberry [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Etaerio
Literary usage of Etaerio
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elementary Botany for South Africa, Theoretical and Practical by Henry Edmonds, Rudolf Marloth (1897)
"Fruit an etaerio of little drupes. Several indigenous species with black or ...
Fruit an etaerio of achenes which are inserted on an enlarged and fleshy ..."
2. Handbook of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger, William Hillhouse (1900)
"The ripe carpels of the flower are closely pressed together in a single whorl
into a collective or aggregate fruit—a dry etaerio of triangular outline. ..."
3. The Shrubs of Northeastern America by Charles Stedman Newhall (1893)
"A drupe or an etaerio. (a) Solitary, with one or in Papaw with several large
stones (Cherry, Papaw). Go to 3. (a) Solitary, with one to several small stones ..."
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