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n. - Outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape.

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  • The outer layer of the cashew is called the exocarp, and the thick inner layer is the endocarp.
  • The outer layer of the cashew, a dry drupe, is called the exocarp, and the thick inner layer is the endocarp.
  • It consists of a thin, pliable exocarp, an orange/red pulpy mesocarp and a hard nut containing a single kernel.
  • First, the inner kernel of gas; second, the hard shell or endocarp; third, a viscous layer like the sarcocarp or pulp, and outside of all the wrinkled crust of exocarp.
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