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aril

[ar-il] / ˈær ɪl /


NOUN
integument
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The fruit is about the size of an ordinary walnut, with a thick rind, which, upon opening, at maturity, discloses a reddish aril covering the nut within.

From The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States by Andrew S. Fuller

The outer palet is to be considered as the metamorphosed leaf, in the aril of which the flower is produced.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries

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

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

The two Italian exiles, Carini aril Montanelli, accompanied me.

From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo


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