Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the fleshy part of certain fruits, placed between the epicarp and the endocarp; the mesocarp.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (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. ofendocarp .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The
fleshy part of astone fruit , situated between theskin , orepicarp , and thestone , orendocarp , as in apeach . - noun Any
fruit which isfleshy throughout.
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Examples
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No. 4 represents the endocarp, or last tegument of the berry; the sarcocarp, which should be found between the numbers 2 and 3, no longer exists, having been absorbed.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various
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First, the inner kernel of gas; second, the hard shell or endocarp; third, a viscous layer like the sarcocarp or pulp, and outside of all the wrinkled crust of exocarp.
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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First, the inner kernel of gas; second, the hard shell or endocarp; third, a viscous layer like the sarcocarp or pulp, and outside of all the wrinkled crust of exocarp.
The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915
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From the human standpoint the pulp, or sarcocarp, as it is scientifically called, is rather an annoyance, as it must be removed in order to procure the beans.
All About Coffee 1909
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The second way is called the wet method; the sarcocarp is removed by machine, and two wet, slimy seed packets are obtained.
All About Coffee 1909
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Aequinoctialum, there are none in which the sarcocarp is developed in a manner so extraordinary.
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In the cocoa-tree it is the perisperm; and in the elais (as in the olive, and the oleineae in general) it is the sarcocarp, or the pulp of the pericarp, that yields oil.
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It is immersed for a few minutes in boiling water, to separate the kernel from the parenchymatous part of the sarcocarp, which has a sweet taste, and is pounded and bruised in a large vessel filled with water.
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It is immersed for a few minutes in boiling water, to separate the kernel from the parenchymatous part of the sarcocarp, which has a sweet taste, and is pounded and bruised in a large vessel filled with water.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Among the eighty or ninety species of palm-trees peculiar to the New Continent, which I have enumerated in the Nova Genera Plantarum Aequinoctialum, there are none in which the sarcocarp is developed in a manner so extraordinary.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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