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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Epicarp \Ep"i*carp\, [Pref. epi- + Gr ? fruit.] (Bot.)
The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened
ovary. See Illust. under {Endocarp}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
epicarp
n : outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a
peach or grape [syn: {exocarp}]
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