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

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

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

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

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

Bicapsular :: Bicapsular (a.) Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular 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..

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..

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..

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

Loculament :: Loculament (n.) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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