Pericarp is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 186 anagrams from letters in pericarp (aceipprr).
1750-60; New Latin pericarpium Greek perikárpion pod. See peri-, -carp
The parts of the pericarp of the nut are united so as to appear one.
The pericarp or pod contains about twenty-four prismatic-shaped nuts.
Autocarpous, aw-to-kr′pus, adj. applied to such fruit as consists only of the pericarp, with no adnate parts.
pericarp round with a point, invested with the calyx, of three cells.
In the strictest sense the fruit is the seed-vessel, technically named the pericarp.
After the ovules have been fertilized, the ovary is called a pericarp.
It is official in all Pharmacopœias and the pericarp is the part employed.
Grain is free, rugose, and the pericarp is hyaline and loose.
As the pericarp advances to maturity, it either becomes dry or succulent.
The pericarp is membranaceous, and adheres to the seed, forming a kind of caryopsides.
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