Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Botany The wall of a ripened ovary; fruit wall.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In flowering plants, the seed-vessel or ripened ovary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See
Illusts . ofcapsule ,drupe , andlegume .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The outermost layer, or
skin , of a ripefruit orovary . - noun used figuratively
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary
Etymologies
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Examples
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Popcorn pops because the pericarp is strong enough to hold in the steam created when the endosperm, which is 14.5 percent water, is heated — strong enough, that is, until the steam reaches 177 degrees C. and the pressure builds to 9.5 kilograms per square centimeter.
Book Give-Away Contest: Week 3 winner, final week begins! ewillett 2008
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[18] It is possible that Theophrastus derived the word pericarp from
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The edible part is called the pericarp, which is the developed tissue of the ovary that surrounds the seeds.
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The edible part is called the pericarp, which is the developed tissue of the ovary that surrounds the seeds.
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The edible part is called the pericarp, which is the developed tissue of the ovary that surrounds the seeds.
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The edible part is called the pericarp, which is the developed tissue of the ovary that surrounds the seeds.
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The edible part is called the pericarp, which is the developed tissue of the ovary that surrounds the seeds.
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The fruits come in the form of a pericarp, which is the mature ovary wall which contains the seeds of the plant.
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The next layer of the pericarp is the mesocarp (Figs. 333, 334, 335), the cells of which are larger and more regular in outline than the epicarp.
All About Coffee 1909
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It is official in all Pharmacopoeias and the pericarp is the part employed.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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