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Turbinated :: Turbinated (a.) Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root..

Quinquevalvular :: Quinquevalvular (a.) Having five valves, as a pericarp..

Naked :: Naked (a.) Without pubescence; as, a naked leaf or stem; bare, or not covered by the customary parts, as a flower without a perianth, a stem without leaves, seeds without a pericarp, buds without bud scales..

Autocarpian :: Autocarpian (a.) Consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape..

Conceptacle :: Conceptacle (n.) A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles..

Pericarp :: Pericarp (n.) The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume..

Pea :: Pea (n.) A plant, and its fruit, of the genus Pisum, of many varieties, much cultivated for food. It has a papilionaceous flower, and the pericarp is a legume, popularly called a pod..

Follicle :: Follicle (n.) A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed..

Mesocarp :: Mesocarp (n.) The middle layer of a pericarp which consists of three distinct or dissimilar layers.

Gromwell :: Gromwell (n.) A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera..

Dissilient :: Dissilient (a.) Starting asunder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp..

Bilocular :: Bilocular (a.) Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp..

Quadrivalve :: Quadrivalve (a.) Dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved; as, a quadrivalve pericarp..

Peritropal :: Peritropal (a.) Having the axis of the seed perpendicular to the axis of the pericarp to which it is attached.

Blastocarpous :: Blastocarpous (a.) Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove..

Pericarpic :: Pericarpic (a.) Of or pertaining to a pericarp.

Burr :: Burr (n.) Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs..

Sexlocular :: Sexlocular (a.) Having six cells for seeds; six-celled; as, a sexlocular pericarp..

Angiospermous :: Angiospermous (a.) Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.

Caryopsis :: Caryopsis (n.) A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc..

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