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[โ€“] apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago

The term is strictly only applied to those formed from one carpel, but is sometimes used for those formed from two carpels

It is strictly only applied to ones with one carpel, but is used anyway to refer to ones with two carpels? That's not confusing at all