sarcocarp
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The second way is called the wet method; the sarcocarp is removed by machine, and two wet, slimy seed packets are obtained.
From All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
It would be an interesting study to trace out those plants which do furnish a well developed fleshy substance or sarcocarp, without the true seeds.
From American Pomology Apples by J. A. Warder
The pulpy matter found in the interior of fruits, such as the gooseberry, grape and others, is formed from the placentas, and must not be confounded with the sarcocarp.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
First, the inner kernel of gas; second, the hard shell or endocarp; third, a viscous layer like the sarcocarp or pulp, and outside of all the wrinkled crust of exocarp.
From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous
No. 4 represents the endocarp, or last tegument of the berry; the sarcocarp, which should be found between the numbers 2 and 3, no longer exists, having been absorbed.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various
