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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr.

περικάρπιον

;

περί

around +

καρπόσ

fruit: cf. F.

péricarpe

(Bot.)

The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of

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Noun.

[Gr. about, and fruit.] The seed-vessel of a plant; a general name including the capsule, legume, silique, follicle, drupe, pome, berry and strobile.