Definition of Caryopsides

1. caryopsis [n] - See also: caryopsis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caryopsides

caryinite
caryophyllaceous
caryophyllaceous plant
caryophyllene
caryophyllene cyclase
caryophyllenes
caryophylliid
caryophylliids
caryophyllin
caryophylloid dicot family
caryophylloid dicot genus
caryophyllous
caryophyllus
caryopilite
caryopses
caryopsides (current term)
caryopsis
caryotheca
caryotin
caryotins
casa
casaba
casaba melon
casabas
casal
casamino acid
casamino acids
casas
casava
casavas

Literary usage of Caryopsides

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanburgy (1879)
"The formation of ergot often affects only a few caryopsides in a single ear; ... In the former case, the healthy development of the other caryopsides is not ..."

2. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Perennials by Loudon (Jane) (1843)
"caryopsides numerous, ovate, spiked, or hooked, and crowded on an elevated receptacle or torus. ... caryopsides velvety ; hooked with the recurved styles. ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... assume structures which subserve tho same purpose ; this especially occurs in small pericarps enclosing ingle seeds, as achenes, caryopsides, <fcc. ..."

4. Medicinal Plants: Being Descriptions with Original Figures of the Principal ...by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen by Robert Bentley, Henry Trimen (1880)
"LOLII SEMIKA ; the seeds or grains (caryopsides). The seeds or grains of Darnel were used medicinally by the ancient Greeks and Romans, but were never ..."

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