aril
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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
The aril which surrounds the seed and the roots of Sapindus Saponaria, an evergreen tree, I have seen used as soap in South America and the West Indies under the name of soap berries.
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 fleshy scarlet covering formed around the naked seed in the yew is by some considered of the nature of an aril.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
The two Italian exiles, Carini aril Montanelli, accompanied me.
From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo