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CARYOPSIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: caryopses    , caryopsides   

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn

Synonyms:

caryopsis; grain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("caryopsis" is a kind of...):

seed (a small hard fruit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "caryopsis"):

amaranth (seed of amaranth plants used as a native cereal in Central and South America)

barleycorn (a grain of barley)

wheat berry (a grain of wheat)

kernel (a single whole grain of a cereal)

rye (the seed of the cereal grass)

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