Bot. [irreg. f. Gr. κρεμα- to hang, κρεμαστός suspended, hanging + καρπός fruit.] A species of fructification, occurring in the Umbelliferæ, in which the simple inferior fruit divides into two indehiscent one-seeded mericarps, which remain for some time suspended by their summits from the central axis.
1866. in Treas. Bot., 345.
1870. Bentley, Bot., 312. The Cremocarp is an inferior, dry, indehiscent, two-celled, two-seeded fruit.
1885. Bennett & Dyer, Sachs’ Bot., II. v. 537. A Cremocarp, where the fruit breaks up into two one-seeded halves or mericarps by the splitting of the dissepiment or ‘carpophore’ along its length.
