epicarp
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of epicarp
Example Sentences
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The drupe is a succulent usually one-seeded indehiscent fruit, with a pericarp easily distinguishable into epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
The cells of the epicarp are broad and polygonal, sometimes regularly four-sided, about 15–35 µ broad.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
At intervals along the surface of the epicarp are stomata, or breathing pores, surrounded by guard cells.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
Fruit a little seed-like nutlet, enclosed in a loose and separable membranous epicarp.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Thus in the date the epicarp is the outer brownish skin, the pulpy matter is the mesocarp or sarcocarp, and the thin papery-like lining is the endocarp covering the hard seed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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