caryopsis

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Definition of caryopsis

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A type of fruit in which the fruit skin is stuck to the seed coat; especially the grain of a cereal.
    “The variation of caryopsis characters in species of Aegilops and wheat diploids is similar to that of wheat tetraploids .”

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Etymology

From caryo- + -opsis.

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