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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..

Three-sided :: Three-sided (a.) Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp..

Echinated :: Echinated (a.) Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp..

Three-valved :: Three-valved (a.) Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp..

Bivalve :: Bivalve (n.) A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.

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..

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

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..

Farctate :: Farctate (v. t.) Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow..

Valvelet :: Valvelet (n.) A little valve; a valvule; especially, one of the pieces which compose the outer covering of a pericarp..

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..

Anthocarpous :: Anthocarpous (a.) Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple..

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

Peascod :: Peascod (n.) The legume or pericarp, or the pod, of the pea..

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..

Seed :: Seed (n.) Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed..

Pachycarpous :: Pachycarpous (a.) Having the pericarp thick.

Boll :: Boll (n.) The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form..

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