Definition of Sarcocarp. Meaning of Sarcocarp. Synonyms of Sarcocarp

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Definition of Sarcocarp

Sarcocarp
Sarcocarp Sar"co*carp, n. [Sarco- + Gr. ? fruit: cf. F. sarcocarpe.] (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. of Endocarp. Note: The term has also been used to denote any fruit which is fleshy throughout. --M. T. Masters.

Meaning of Sarcocarp from wikipedia

- Fruits are the mature ovary or ovaries of one or more flowers. They are found in three main anatomical categories: aggregate fruits, multiple fruits, and...
- called the "exocarp" or "epicarp"; the middle layer, the "mesocarp" or "sarcocarp"; the inner layer, the "endocarp". Botanists have not applied these terms...
- the skin and outside the stony layer (if any), surrounding the seed(s); sarcocarp. mesomorphic Soft and with little fibrous tissue, but not succulent. mesophyll...
- identified as an allergen in humans. This enzyme is isolated from the sarcocarp of the musk melon (Cu****is melo). Greenberg DM, Winnick T (1940). "Plant...
- obtained from it. The nuts are deprived of their outer succulent cover (sarcocarp) and are then broken; and the kernels, having been roughly pounded, are...
- Cucurmosin is a type I ribosome inactivating protein (RIP) found in the sarcocarp (flesh) and seed of Cucurbitanotably Cucurbita moschata, that is toxic...