Describing a plant that produces two distinctly different types of fruits or fruit structures.
From Greek dicho- (in two) + karpos (fruit) + -ous (adjective suffix). Related to dichocarpism, referring to the characteristic of producing two kinds of fruit.
Dichocarpous plants are nature's pragmatists—by producing radically different fruit types, they can appeal to different seed-dispersal partners simultaneously, which is why you might see some plants making both tiny seeds for wind and fleshy berries for birds.
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