cynarrhodium

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek [Term?], literally "dog-rose".

Noun

cynarrhodium (plural cynarrhodia)

(botany) A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cynarrhodium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)