Perisperm vs Pericarp - What's the difference?
perisperm | pericarp |
(biology) The layer of nutritive tissue, derived from the nucellus, that surrounds the embryo of a seed in some angiosperms.
(botany) The outermost layer, or skin, of a ripe fruit or ovary.
(rare, figurative) The outer layer of any thing.
* 1974 , (Guy Davenport), Tatlin! :
As nouns the difference between perisperm and pericarp
is that perisperm is the layer of nutritive tissue, derived from the nucellus, that surrounds the embryo of a seed in some angiosperms while pericarp is the outermost layer, or skin, of a ripe fruit or ovary.perisperm
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(en noun)Derived terms
* perispermicpericarp
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(en noun)- He learned, afternoon after afternoon, how to edge her into delicious frenzies, how to tremble the clitoris, pericarp , and tip.
