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sarcocarps

sarcocarps is the plural of sarcocarp.

Meaning of sarcocarp

Noun

sarcocarp (countable and uncountable, plural sarcocarps)

  1. The mesocarp (fleshy middle layer of the pericarp of a fruit).
    • In throwing Afa, the reverend man, or the scholar, if sufficiently advanced, takes 16 of the fleshy nuts of a palm, resembling the cocoa-tree; these are cleared of sarcocarp, and are marked with certain Afa-du, or Afa strokes.1864, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “The Presents Are Delivered”, in A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. […], volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 332
  2. (archaic) Any fruit which is fleshy throughout.

Questions about sarcocarps

What is sarcocarps the plural of?
Sarcocarps is the plural of sarcocarp.

Words near sarcocarps in the dictionary

  1. sarcoblasts
  2. sarcocarcinoma
  3. sarcocarp
  4. sarcocarpia
  5. sarcocarpium
  6. sarcocarps
  7. sarcocaulescent
  8. sarcocele
  9. sarcoceles
  10. sarcococca
  11. sarcocol

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