aril
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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
It is attached to the placenta by the funicle f, cellular prolongations from which form an aril a a.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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 of White Water Lily, enclosed in its aril.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
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