Pericarp

Definition: Pericarp

Pericarp

Noun

1. The ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary.

Date "pericarp" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1908. (references)

Synonym: Pericarp

Synonym: seed vessel (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Receptacle	Capsule, vesicle, cyst, pod, calyx, cancelli, utricle, bladder; pericarp, udder.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Pericarp

English words defined with "pericarp": Anthocarpous, Autocarpian ♦ Blastocarpous ♦ Conceptacle ♦ Dissilient ♦ Echinated, endocarp, epicarp, exocarp ♦ Farctate ♦ Loculament ♦ Mesocarp ♦ Nidulant ♦ Pachycarpous, Peascod, Pericarpic, Peritropal, pit ♦ Quadrivalve, Quinquelocular, Quinquevalvular ♦ seed vessel, Sexlocular, stone ♦ Three-valved, Transverse partition, Turbinated ♦ Univalved. (references)

Specialty definitions using "pericarp": hulled grains ♦ JESSENIA POLYCARPA, JUNGIA FERRUGINEA, JUNGIA MOSCHATA, JUNIGA ACEROIDES ♦ pearled grains ♦ semi-milled rice. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Pericarp" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (pericarp).

"Pericarp" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pericarp" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	7	133,076

Language		Translations for "pericarp"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏غلاف الثمرة. (various references)

Bulgarian		околоплодник. (various references)

Chinese		果皮 (Peel). (various references)

Danish		soelvhinde (silver skin), hinde (film, membrane, pellicle, veil). (various references)

Dutch		zilvervlies, zaadwand. (various references)

French		péricarpe. (various references)

German		Perikarp. (various references)

Greek		περικάρπιο (aril, capsule, follicle, seedvessel). (various references)

Hungarian		magrejtõ. (various references)

Italian		pericarpo. (various references)

Manx		ym-charp. (various references)

Pig Latin		ericarppay

Portuguese		pericarpo (seed vessel), pericárpio (pericranium), pericárdio (pericardium), peicarpo. (various references)

Romanian		pericarp. (various references)

Russian		околоплодник (seed-vessel), перикарпий. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		semeni omotač. (various references)

Spanish		pericarpio (seed vessel). (various references)

Swedish		gömme, fruktvägg, frökapsel (capsule, seed capsule, seed case, seedcase), fröhus (seed capsule, seedcase). (various references)

Turkish		perikarp, tohum zarı (aril, tegument), meyve örtüsü. (various references)

Ukranian		оплодень (pericarpium). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pericarp": pericarps. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "pericarp" (pronounced 'Per"i*carp'): Ascocarp, Cremocarp, Cystocarp, Endocarp, Epicarp, Exocarp, Hemicarp, Lithocarp, Mericarp, Mesocarp, monocarp, Phylactocarp, Pleurocarp, Podocarp, Pseudocarp, Regmacarp, Sarcocarp, Schizocarp, sporocarp, syncarp. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: crappier.
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-p-p-r-r"
	-1 letter: crapper, crappie, epicarp.
	-2 letters: capper, carper, pricer, racier, rapier, rapper, repair, ripper, riprap.
	-3 letters: airer, areic, caper, carer, carpi, ceria, crape, crier, cripe, erica, pacer, paper, parer, piper, price, prier, racer, raper, recap, ricer, riper.
	-4 letters: acre, aper, cape, care, carp, carr, cire, crap, epic, pace, pair, pare, parr, pear, peri, perp, pica, pice.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-p-p-r-r"
	+1 letter: pericarps, scrappier.
	+3 letters: appreciator, dipterocarp.
	+4 letters: appreciators, appreciatory, dipterocarps, periphrastic, petrographic, preceptorial, precipitator, reprographic.
	+5 letters: copartnership, perpendicular, preceptorials, precipitators, prepurchasing, reprographics, sharecropping, supergraphics.
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