The edible part is called the pericarp, which is the developed tissue of the ovary that surrounds the seeds. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
It is official in all Pharmacopoeias and the pericarp is the part employed. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The fruits come in the form of a pericarp, which is the mature ovary wall which contains the seeds of the plant. From Wordnik.com. [Tigers & Strawberries » My Precious] Reference
The next layer of the pericarp is the mesocarp (Figs. 333, 334, 335), the cells of which are larger and more regular in outline than the epicarp. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
× 500 P. pericarp; I. seed-coat; A. aleurone layer. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
White pepper has the black pericarp or hull removed. From Wordnik.com. [Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value] Reference
= Those plants which bear their seeds within a pericarp. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
The benefit of the fruit is in the pericarp, not the pulp. From Wordnik.com. [CRANBERRIES, AND A SHORT RANT] Reference
Grain is free, rugose, and the pericarp is hyaline and loose. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The saponins are buried in a pericarp, like the rind on an orange. From Wordnik.com. [3: Staple crops] Reference
At that point, the pericarp fails suddenly, and the endosperm explodes. From Wordnik.com. [Book Give-Away Contest: Week 3 winner, final week begins!] Reference
Reaching up to heaven itself, the Sumeru became the pericarp of the Lotus. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
I like it because it has larger seed and a softer pericarp, but is day-neutral. From Wordnik.com. [3: Staple crops] Reference
The seed fills the cavity fully and the pericarp fuses with the seed-coat and so they are inseparable. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Caryopsis a one-celled, one-seeded, superior fruit in which the pericarp has fused with the seed-coat. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The pericarp is impregnated with a white viscous fluid, which adheres very tenaciously to the fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Its fleshy pericarp yields by expression olive oil, of which the finest comes from Provence and Florence. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Upon maturity this fleshy portion or pericarp splits but does not open as is usually the case with almond hulls. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922] Reference
Besides, the seed does not come from the pericarp, and yet this also comes into being with the same form as in the parent plant. From Wordnik.com. [On the Generation of Animals] Reference
If the pericarp fails too soon, the steam escapes and the pressure never builds to the point where the endosperm can properly explode. From Wordnik.com. [Book Give-Away Contest: Week 3 winner, final week begins!] Reference
Like other cereal grains, sorghum is composed of three main parts: seed coat (pericarp), germ (embryo), and endosperm (storage tissue). From Wordnik.com. [7. Sorghum] Reference
As they are loosened in time, they move freely in the large spherical pericarp. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
The highest concentration of xanthones are found in the pericarp (or rind) of the mangosteen. From Wordnik.com. [Wil's Ebay E-Store]
The pericarp of the bertholletia has traces of four cells, and I have sometimes found even five. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Fruit as large as a man's head, with thin woody pericarp and many seeds embedded within its pulp. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
This operation must, however, be impossible, on account of the extreme hardness and thickness of the pericarp. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Fruit about size and form of a small apple, thick, brown, pericarp indehiscent, 5 or more one-seeded compartments. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
The fruit, which is the size of a small cherry, has, like the cherry, an outer fleshy portion called the pericarp. From Wordnik.com. [All About Coffee] Reference
These are of an oblong triangular shape; and a great number of them are enclosed in the pericarp, already described. From Wordnik.com. [Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt] Reference
There are over 200 xanthones that have been identified and many of these xanthones are found in the pericarp of the Mangosteen fruit. From Wordnik.com. [Wil's Ebay E-Store] Reference
Croton cascarilla, or the pericarp of the Unona xylopioides, is generally preferred to that of the astringent bark of cinchona, or of. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
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