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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Caryopsis \Car`y*op"sis\, n.; pl {Caryopses}. [NL., fr gr ? hut, kernel + ? sight, form.] (Bot.) A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: caryopsis n : dry seedlike fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn [syn: {grain}]
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