Caryopsis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. See grain.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A type of fruit in which the fruit skin is stuck to the seed coat; especially the grain of a cereal.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany, a small, one-seeded, dry, indehiscent fruit, in which the thin seed-coat is adherent throughout to the very thin pericarp, as in wheat and all other cereal grains. Also spelled cariopsis.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
    • Variant
    caryopsides    caryopses   
     
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