Meanings
adjectivehypocarpogean (not comparable)
- not comparablebiologyFruiting underground.
On pulling the plant up I found that it was to a certain extent hypocarpogean, for the lower branches had ripened their fruit, and the pods had, as it were, wormed themselves underground, and germination had already commenced, the higher parts of the plant being at the same time in flower.
1869, Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, volume 29, page 865
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