Pericarp vs Endosperm - What's the difference?
pericarp | endosperm |
(botany) The outermost layer, or skin, of a ripe fruit or ovary.
(rare, figurative) The outer layer of any thing.
* 1974 , (Guy Davenport), Tatlin! :
(biology) tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid
As nouns the difference between pericarp and endosperm
is that pericarp is the outermost layer, or skin, of a ripe fruit or ovary while endosperm is tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid.pericarp
English
Noun
(en noun)- He learned, afternoon after afternoon, how to edge her into delicious frenzies, how to tremble the clitoris, pericarp , and tip.
