[kar-ee-op-sis] 
[-seez] -si⋅des [-si-deez] . Botany. | a small, one-celled, one-seeded, dry indehiscent fruit with the pericarp adherent to the seed coat, the typical fruit of grasses and grains. |
| car·y·op·sis (kār'ē-ŏp'sĭs) n. pl. car·y·op·ses (-ŏp'sēz') or car·y·op·si·des (-ŏp'sĭ-dēz') See grain. [cary(o)-, variant of karyo- + -opsis.] |
| caryopsis (kār'ē-ŏp'sĭs) Pronunciation Key
Plural caryopses (kār'ē-ŏp'sēz') or caryopsides (kār'ē-ŏp'sĭ-dēz') 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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