caryopsis


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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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