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caryopsis
[ kar-ee-op-sis ]
noun
Botany.
plural caryopses caryopsides
- a small, one-celled, one-seeded, dry indehiscent fruit with the pericarp adherent to the seed coat, the typical fruit of grasses and grains.
caryopsis
/ ËŒ°ìæ°ùɪˈɒ±è²õɪ²õ /
noun
- a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses
caryopsis
/ °ìă°ù′ē-űè′²õIJõ /
, Plural caryopses °ìă°ù′ē-űè′²õŧ³ú′
- A small, dry, one-seeded fruit of a cereal grass, having the fruit and the seed walls united.
- Also called grain
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of caryopsis1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of caryopsis1
C19: New Latin; see karyo- , -opsis
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Fruit oval, flat, with the outer face rather convex and the inner concave, sharp-margined, a caryopsis, i.e. the thin pericarp adherent to the vertical seed.
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Such a fruit is termed a caryopsis or grain.
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The caryopsis consists of an embryo on one side at the base and the endosperm occupies the remaining portion.
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As an illustration of the caryopsis, the grain of Andropogon Sorghum may be studied.
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