caryopsis
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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.
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.
But in some plants the pericarps assume structures which subserve the same purpose; this especially occurs in small pericarps enclosing single seeds, as achenes, caryopsides, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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