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Caryopsis
is always a great word to know.
So is sporophyte generation. Does it mean:
| plants with the vascular tissues xylem and phloem for transporting water and nutrients |
| phase in plant life which starts with a zygote produced by sexual reproduction |
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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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caryopsis
specialized type of dry, one-seeded fruit (achene) characteristic of grasses, in which the ovary wall is united with the seed coat, making it difficult to separate the two except by special milling processes. All the cereal grains except buckwheat have caryopses.
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