caryopsis
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| —n , pl -ses, -sides | |
| a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses | |
| [C19: New Latin; see | |
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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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Example sentences
The ventral side of lodicule caryopsis is turned outwards of the flower.
Such caryopsis formation has never been observed previously in any known wheat.
Seeds were visually checked before treatments for a filled and mature caryopsis under a microscope.
Sometimes the germs are dislocated to the back of caryopsis for the caryopses formed from lodicules.
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