pericarp
Example Sentences
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The three colors of the candy—a big yellow end, an orange center and a pointed white tip—mimic the three parts of a corn kernel: the tip cap, endosperm and pericarp.
Another three well-characterized domestication genes, qSH1 for seed shattering, Waxy for grain quality and Rc for pericarp colour, which showed strong selection signals in the panel, were not fully shared in the population.
From Nature
Fruit dehiscing irregularly, the pericarp thin, loose and usually roughened; not salt-marsh plants.
From Project Gutenberg
Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.
From Project Gutenberg
Consisting of the pericarp of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.
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