A cartilage-bearing structure or part of an organism; in botany, a portion of a fruit or flower that is cartilage-like in consistency.
From Greek 'chondros' (cartilage) + 'phore' (bearing or carrying). The '-phore' suffix comes from Greek 'pherein' (to carry) and is used in biology to indicate something that bears or carries another thing.
While the term is rare in modern science, chondrophore shows how botanists and zoologists tried to name every possible structure type—it's a relic of when scientists wanted to classify literally everything they observed.
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