caryopsis

caryopsis

English

Etymology

caryo- +‎ -opsis

Noun

caryopsis (plural caryopses or caryopsides)

1. (botany) A type of fruit in which the fruit skin is stuck to the seed coat; especially the grain of a cereal.
   • 1995, Romuald Kosina, Tetraploids of the Genus Triticum in the Light of Caryopsis Structure:

     The variation of caryopsis characters in species of Aegilops and wheat diploids is similar to that of wheat tetraploids .

Translations

type of fruit

Chinese: Mandarin: 穎果／颖果 (zh) (yǐngguǒ) Czech: obilka f Dutch: graanvrucht f Esperanto: kariopso Finnish: jyvä (fi) French: caryopse (fr) m German: Karyopse (de) f Italian: cariosside (it) f Japanese: 穎果 (ja) (えいか, eika) Persian: گندمه‎ (fa) (gandome) Polish: ziarniak m inan Portuguese: cariopse f Romanian: cariopsă (ro) f Spanish: cariópside f, cariopse f Tagalog: butilbunga Welsh: caryopsis m, ffrwyth glaswellt m

References

• caryopsis at OneLook Dictionary Search
• caryopsis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia