amalthea

See also: Amalthea

English

Noun

amalthea

  1. (botany, obsolete) An aggregation of dry fruits within a calyx which does not become fleshy, as in Alchemilla or Sanguisorba.
    • 1821, Samuel Frederick Gray, A natural arrangement of British plants, page 264:
      The amalthea cut transversely; calyx five-toothed, echinated; seeds three, ovate, not fleshy, slightly compressed, pointed at top, blunt at bottom.
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