pericarp

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For instance, strawberries are derived from the receptacle and apples from the pericarp, or hypanthium.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

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 • Oct. 24, 2012

Starch is rarely present in the pericarp of the fruit, although it occurs commonly in the seed.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.

The fruits of Luffa aegyptiaca have a number of closely netted vascular bundles in the pericarp, forming a kind of loose felt which supplies the well-known loofah or bath-sponge.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

Autocarpous, aw-to-k�r′pus, adj. applied to such fruit as consists only of the pericarp, with no adnate parts.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various