pericarp
Meaning of pericarp
noun
the part of a fruit formed from the wall of the ripened ovary.
late 17th century: from French péricarpe, from Greek perikarpion ‘pod, shell’, from peri- ‘around’ + karpos ‘fruit’.
Information about pericarp
- It is a name.
- The plural form of pericarp is: pericarps.
- Languages in which pericarp is used:
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Hyphenation of pericarp
peri-carp
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- pericarp is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of pericarp
Words that rhyme with pericarp
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