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cariopsis

cariopsis is the dated form of caryopsis.

Meaning of caryopsis

Noun

caryopsis (plural caryopses or caryopsides)

  1. A type of fruit in which the fruit skin is stuck to the seed coat; especially the grain of a cereal.
    • The variation of caryopsis characters in species of Aegilops and wheat diploids is similar to that of wheat tetraploids .1995, Romuald Kosina, Tetraploids of the Genus Triticum in the Light of Caryopsis Structure

Forms of cariopsis

pluralcariopses

Questions about cariopsis

What is cariopsis the dated form of?
Cariopsis is the dated form of caryopsis.

Words near cariopsis in the dictionary

  1. cariologist
  2. cariologists
  3. cariology
  4. carioprotective
  5. cariopses
  6. cariopsis
  7. cariosis
  8. cariosity
  9. cariosome
  10. cariosomes
  11. cariostasis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cariopsis (page history and authors); caryopsis (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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