In botany, describing a plant or fruit that produces or contains exactly ten seeds.
From 'deca-' (ten) + 'spermous' (relating to seeds, from Greek 'sperma'). This descriptive botanical term became standardized in Linnaean taxonomy.
Botanists noticed that decaspermous plants often belong to the same families—this pattern helped early naturalists create classification systems before DNA testing, turning seed counts into a kind of botanical fingerprinting.
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