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caryopsis
n. dry fruit that resembles a seed produced by grasses and cereal crops

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Caryopsis
In botany, a caryopsis (plural caryopses) is a type of simple dry fruit — one that is monocarpellate (formed from a single carpel) and indehiscent (not opening at maturity) and resembles an achene, except that in a caryopsis the pericarp is fused with the thin seed coat.

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caryopsis
Noun
1. dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
(synonym) grain
(hypernym) seed
(hyponym) amaranth


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Caryopsis
(n.)
A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.
  

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caryopsis
caryopsis /,kæri'ɔpsis/
  • danh từ, số nhiều caryopsides/,kæri'ɔpsidi:z/
    • (thực vật học) quả thóc

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