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caryopsis::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | grain |
| Type of | seed |
| Has types | amaranth, barleycorn, kernel, rye, wheat berry |
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The fruit of the sweet corn plant is the corn kernel, a type of fruit called a caryopsis.
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Technically, a cereal grain is also a kind of fruit, a kind which is termed a caryopsis.
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When fruits do not open and release their seeds in a regular fashion they are called indehiscent, which include the fruits achenes, caryopsis, nuts, samaras, and utricles.
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- Grain: dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- In botany, a caryopsis is a type of simple dry fruit -- one that is monocarpelate (formed from a single carpel) and indehiscent (not opening at maturity) and resembles an achene, except that in a caryopsis the pericarp is fused with the thin seed coat.
- The fruit, of grasses, in which the ripened ovary wall, the pericarp, is fused to the seed coats, the testa, at maturity.
- Small, one-seeded, dry fruit with a thin pericarp surrounding and adhering to the seed; the ripened fruit of grasses, a single seed or kernel of grain.
- The term used to describe the simple fruit produced by grasses, including cereals.
- The single-seeded fruit typical of members of the grass family, Poa-ceae. A caryopsis, often called a grain, does not open at maturity and is typically hard and dry.
- The fruit of a grass (grain).
- A seed-like fruit with a thin outer wall; a grain.
