aril
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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
Fruit ribbed, long, the compartments formed by reticular partitions; contains many irregular seeds, one border sharp, the other obtuse, covered by a very thin aril.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
The seeds are edible, and the blue, pulpy aril surrounding them yields an essential oil.
From Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture by William Saunders
Each flower-stalk of their long racemes is situated in the aril of such a bract, and the peculiarity is quite a natural one, corresponding exactly to what is seen in the inflorescence of other families.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
But on closer inspection we observe that the flower stalks are combined into little groups, each group occupying the aril of one of the basal leaves.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Hugo de Vries
