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pericarp
Example Sentences
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.
A grain, as of grasses; a seed-like fruit with a thin pericarp adnate to the contained seed.
Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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