pericarp

per·i·carp  (pr-kärp)

n.

1. Botany The wall of a ripened ovary; fruit wall.

2. A membranous structure surrounding the cystocarp of red algae.

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peri·carpi·al adj.

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pericarp

Noun

Bot the part of a fruit enclosing the seed that develops from the wall of the ovary [Greek peri- around + karpos fruit]

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pericarp  (pr-kärp)

The tissue that arises from the ripened ovary wall of a fruit; the fruit wall. In fleshy fruits, the pericarp can often be divided into the exocarp, the mesocarp, and the endocarp. For example, in a peach, the skin is the exocarp, the yellow flesh is the mesocarp, while the stone or pit surrounding the seed represents the endocarp.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

pericarp - the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary seed vessel covering, natural covering, cover - a natural object that covers or envelops; "under a covering of dust"; "the fox was flushed from its cover" seed - a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa epicarp, exocarp - outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape mesocarp - the middle layer of a pericarp endocarp, pit, stone - the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking" capsule - a dry dehiscent seed vessel or the spore-containing structure of e.g. mosses bur, burr - seed vessel having hooks or prickles