aril
Example Sentences
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The two Italian exiles, Carini aril Montanelli, accompanied me.
From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo
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
And think of what else he says of it: ‘Ovary ovoid, stigma sessile, undulate, seeds covering the lateral placenta, each enclosed in an aril.’
From Some Spring Days in Iowa by Frederick John Lazell
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
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
