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Definition of Pericarps
1. pericarp [n] - See also: pericarp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pericarps
Literary usage of Pericarps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Botany by Robert John Thornton (1812)
"THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF pericarps. SYNTHESIS. AFTER the sight and smell have been
regaled by flowers, Nature then seems only intent upon the continuation and ..."
2. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1833)
"obovate, fleshy,, and very juicy pericarps, each tipped with its persistent,
recurved style, and containing shining, black, smooth seeds. ..."
3. Botany for Beginners by Lincoln Phelps (1849)
"Inflorescence—Receptacle—Fruit—Linnaeus' classification of pericarps. 328.
We shall now proceed to consider the various ways in which flowers grow upon ..."
4. Flora scotica, or, A description of Scottish plants, arranged both according by William Jackson Hooker (1821)
"pericarps with or without awns. 1. A. nemorosa, leaves ternate lobed and cut,
involucre the same petiolate, stem single-flowered, capsules without awns. p. ..."
5. Botany for Beginners: An Introduction to 'Mrs. Lincoln's Lectures on Botany' by Lincoln Phelps (1856)
"... classification of pericarps. 328. We shall now proceed to consider the various
ways in which flowers grow upon their stalks; this is called their ..."
6. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1851)
"3, 4, pericarps separated from the perianth :—magnified. BOTANICAL INFORMATION.
Plants of ALGERIA. [The following circular has been recently issued from ..."
7. Flora Devoniensis: Or A Descriptive Catalogue of Plants Growing Wild in the by John Pike Jones, J. F. Kingston (1829)
"pericarps terminated by a long feathered awn.—P. 92. 198. ANF.MONE. ...
pericarps obtuse.—P. 93. TT . pericarps dehiscent, many-seeded. 201. CALTHA. ..."
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