aril
Example Sentences
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Seed of White Water Lily, enclosed in its aril.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
Calyx not minute; pod colored, dehiscent; seeds enclosed in a pulpy aril.
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 Asa Gray
Seed vessel pyramidal, containing many seeds enveloped in an elastic aril by which they are ejected when the fruit opens.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
The aril is a growth from the extremity of the seed-stalk, or from the placenta when there is no seed-stalk.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
Pistillate solitary; ovary, 3 locules and numerous ovules; stigma, 3 bifid divisions; fruit globose, narrowing at the ends, covered with tubercles; seeds numerous, lacking albumen, having red aril.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
