caryopsis

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Such a fruit is termed a caryopsis or grain.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

As an illustration of the caryopsis, the grain of Andropogon Sorghum may be studied.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Gnaphalium, 166Golden pepper-grass, 136Goosefoot, 125Goosefoot family, 124 Grain, the caryopsis or fruit of Gramineae; any small seed.

From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by Beal, W. J. (William James)

Fruit oval, flat, with the outer face rather convex and the inner concave, sharp-margined, a caryopsis, i.e. the thin pericarp adherent to the vertical seed.

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 Gray, Asa

The caryopsis consists of an embryo on one side at the base and the endosperm occupies the remaining portion.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.