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Webster 1913 Edition


Sarcocarp

Sar′co-carp

,
Noun.
[
Sarco-
+ Gr. [GREEK] fruit: cf. F.
sarcocarpe
.]
(Bot.)
The fleshy part of a stone fruit, situated between the skin, or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach. See Illust. of
Endocarp
.
☞ The term has also been used to denote any fruit which is fleshy throughout.
M. T. Masters.

Definition 2024


sarcocarp

sarcocarp

English

Noun

sarcocarp (plural sarcocarps)

  1. (botany) The fleshy part of a stone fruit, situated between the skin, or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach.
  2. Any fruit which is fleshy throughout.

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