regma

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of dry fruit, consisting of three or more cells, each of which eventually breaks open at the inner angle.

Word forms

regma regmata

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ῥῆγμα (rhêgma, “breaking, fracture”). Doublet of rhegma.

Related words

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