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The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.

Of or pertaining to a pericarp.

A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.

Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.

Having some portion of the floral envelopes attached to the pericarp to form the fruit, as in the checkerberry, the mulberry, and the pineapple.

Consisting of the pericarp of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.

Having two capsules; as, a bicapsular pericarp.

Divided into two cells or compartments; as, a bilocular pericarp. Gray.

A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.

A distended, membranaceous pericarp.

Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove. Brande & C.

The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.

Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and burdock. Also, any weed which bears burs. Amongst rude burs and thistles. Milton. Bur and brake and brier. Tennyson.

A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.

A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles.

nder; bursting and opening with an elastic force; dehiscing explosively; as, a dissilient pericarp.

Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.

Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow. [Obs.]

A simple podlike pericarp which contains several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.

A plant of the genus Lithospermum (L. arvense), anciently used, because of its stony pericarp, in the cure of gravel. The German gromwell is the Stellera. [Written also gromill.]