HyperDic: endocarp

English > 1 sense of the word endocarp:
NOUNplantendocarp, stone, pitthe hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
English > endocarp: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningThe hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed.
Synonymsstone, pit
Narrowercherry stoneThe stone seed of a cherry
peach pitThe stone seed of a peach
Broaderpericarp, seed vesselThe ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary
Spanishendocarpio, endocarpo, hueso
Catalanendocarpi, pinyol

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