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

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..

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

Pericarpial :: Pericarpial (a.) Alt. of Pericarpi.

Angiosperm :: Angiosperm (n.) A plant which has its seeds inclosed in 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..

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..

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..

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..

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

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..

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..

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp..

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

Nidulant :: Nidulant (a.) Lying loose in pulp or cotton within a berry or pericarp, as in a nest..

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

Quinquelocular :: Quinquelocular (a.) Having five cells or loculi; five-celled; as, a quinquelocular pericarp..

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

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

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

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