🔄 Synonyms of "Pericarp"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| seed vesselnoun | (botany) The ripened and otherwise modified wall of a plant ovary. |
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| Word | Definition |
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| seed vesselnoun | (botany) The ripened and otherwise modified wall of a plant ovary. |
| arilnoun | (botany) A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates. |
| fleshy | Of, related to, or resembling flesh. |
| endocarpnoun | (botany) The woody inner layer of the pericarp of some fruits that contains the seed: the tissue (uncountable) or the structure that it composes (countable). |
| exocarpnoun | (biology) The outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits; the skin or epicarp |
| epicarpnoun | (botany) Exocarp. |
| mesocarpnoun | (botany) The middle layer of the pericarp of a fruit. In many fruits such as drupes and tomatoes, the mesocarp is fleshy |
| sarcocarpnoun | (botany) The mesocarp (fleshy middle layer of the pericarp of a fruit). |
| conceptaclenoun | (phycology) A cavity in some marine algae that contains the reproductive organs. |
| pseudocarpnoun | (botany) An accessory fruit. |
| fruitcasenoun | (botany) Synonym of exocarp. |
| lemmanoun | (linguistics, lexicography) The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc. |
| peridiumnoun | (mycology) The outer layer that covers the spore-bearing organ in many fungi. |
| perispermnoun | (biology) The layer of nutritive tissue, derived from the nucellus, that surrounds the embryo of a seed in some angiosperms. |
| skinnoun | (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human. |
| hullnoun | The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane. |
| ovarynoun | (anatomy) A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova in most animals, and in mammals, secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone. |
| pericliniumnoun | (botany) The involucre that surrounds the common receptacle in composite flowers. |
| loculamentnoun | (botany) locule; loculus (compartment of the ovary where the seed is placed) |
| hypocarpiumnoun | (botany) An enlarged fleshy structure that forms below the fruit, from the receptacle or hypanthium. |
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