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Caryopsis

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A type of fruit in which the fruit skin is stuck to the seed coat; especially the grain of a cereal.

    "The variation of caryopsis characters in species of Aegilops and wheat diploids is similar to that of wheat tetraploids ."

  2. 2
    dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn wordnet

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From caryo- + -opsis.

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