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caryopsis
n.
dry fruit that resembles a seed produced by grasses and cereal crops
Caryopsis
In
botany, a
caryopsis (plural
caryopses) is a type of simple dry
fruit — one that is monocarpellate (formed from a single
carpel) and
indehiscent (not opening at maturity) and resembles an
achene, except that in a caryopsis the
pericarp is fused with the thin seed coat.
caryopsis
Noun
1. dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
(synonym) grain
(hypernym) seed
(hyponym) amaranth
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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