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reg⋅ma

[reg-muh]
–noun, plural -ma⋅ta [-muh-tuh] . Botany.
a dry fruit consisting of three or more carpels that separate from the axis at maturity.

Origin:
1830–40; < NL < Gk rhêgma fracture, break, equiv. to rhēg(nýnai) to break, shatter + -ma n. suffix of result
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