noun
- the condition or quality of having carpels that are separate or not fused together in a flower or fruit.
Usage: botany; technical
Examples
- Apocarpy is a characteristic feature of many primitive flowering plants.
- The botanist studied apocarpy in the flower's reproductive structures.
- Unlike syncarpy, apocarpy allows each carpel to develop independently.
- Apocarpy is commonly observed in members of the Ranunculaceae family.