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caryopsis

[kar-ee-op-sis]

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noun

Botany.

plural

caryopses, caryopsides

a small, one-celled, one-seeded, dry indehiscent fruit with the pericarp adherent to the seed coat, the typical fruit of grasses and grains.

caryopsis

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noun

a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses

caryopsis

plural

caryopses

A small, dry, one-seeded fruit of a cereal grass, having the fruit and the seed walls united.
Also called grain

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Word History and Origins

Origin of caryopsis¹

First recorded in 1820–30; cary(o)- + -opsis

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Word History and Origins

Origin of caryopsis¹

C19: New Latin; see _karyo- , _-opsis

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Fruit oval, flat, with the outer face rather convex and the inner concave, sharp-margined, a caryopsis, i.e. the thin pericarp adherent to the vertical seed.

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Such a fruit is termed a caryopsis or grain.

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The caryopsis consists of an embryo on one side at the base and the endosperm occupies the remaining portion.

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As an illustration of the caryopsis, the grain of Andropogon Sorghum may be studied.

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kernel��

caryophyllaceous C.A.S.

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