epicarp
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The cells of the epicarp are broad and polygonal, sometimes regularly four-sided, about 15–35 µ broad.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
Botanists distinguish five skins on the berry—epidermis, epicarp, endicarp, episperm and embryous membrane—but for practical purposes the number of integuments may be taken as three.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Mooden Sheriff ascribes its emetic properties to the pulp alone, the epicarp and seeds being inactive according to his authority.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
Thus in the date the epicarp is the outer brownish skin, the pulpy matter is the mesocarp or sarcocarp, and the thin papery-like lining is the endocarp covering the hard seed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
At intervals along the surface of the epicarp are stomata, or breathing pores, surrounded by guard cells.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
