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a dry fruit consisting of three or more carpels that separate from the axis at maturity.[1830-40; < NL < Gk rhêgma fracture, break, equiv. to rheg(nýnai) to break, shatter + -ma n. suffix of result]
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Regma — Reg ma (r?g m?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ????, ???, fracture, fr. ?????? to break.] (Bot.) A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each which at length breaks open at the inner angle. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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