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EPICARP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does epicarp mean?
• EPICARP (noun)
The noun EPICARP has 1 sense:
1. outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape
Familiarity information: EPICARP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
epicarp; exocarp
Hypernyms ("epicarp" is a kind of...):
pericarp; seed vessel (the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary)
Derivation:
epicarpal (of or relating to the epicarp)
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