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Webster 1913 Edition


Sarcocarp

Sar′co-carp

,
Noun.
[
Sarco-
+ Gr. [GREEK] fruit: cf. F.
sarcocarpe
.]
(Bot.)
The fleshy part of a stone fruit, situated between the skin, or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach. See Illust. of
Endocarp
.
☞ The term has also been used to denote any fruit which is fleshy throughout.
M. T. Masters.