apocarpous (apokarpus)

[ ovary or a fruit composed of one or more simple and distinct pistils, as in the Ranunculaceæ and many Ro IMG:content-0947.png:[blocks in formation] This method of fighting was a tradition in Greece from the heroic age, but in historic times the practice was preserved only in Bœotia and in Athens, particularly as a feature of the Panathenaic proce ion in the latter state. In the These i on IMG:content-0948.png:[blocks in formation] A. S. Murray , Greek [Sculpture, I. 244. apoblast (ap'ōblast), n. [Gr. ἀπό, off, + βλαστός, germ.] In biol . , a so-called directive corpuscle; a small temporary body formed in an unimpregnated ovum as a result of cell-division. See extract. Resting on the dividing upper sphere are the eight shaped "directive corpuscles, better called "præseminal outcast cells or apoblasts," since they are the result of a cell-division which affects the egg-cell before it is impregnated, and are mere refuse destined to disappear. E. R. Lankester , Encyc. Brit., XVI. 637.