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  1. In botany, a dry, usually many-seeded fruit
  2. that splits along one side only to release
  3. the seeds within. It is derived from a single
  4. carpel, examples include the fruits of the
  5. Delphinium and columbine Aquilegia. It
  6. differs from a pod, which always splits open
  7. (dehisces) along both sides.
  8.