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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Het·er·o·car·pism n.  Bot. The power of producing two kinds of reproductive bodies, as in the hog peanut Amphicarpaea bracteata, in which besides the usual pods produced from flowers above ground, there are others underground.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Amphicarpaea bracteata
      n : vine widely distributed in eastern North America producing
          racemes of purple to maroon flowers and abundant (usually
          subterranean) edible one-seeded pods resembling peanuts
          [syn: hog peanut, wild peanut, Amphicarpa bracteata]