Words Like CARYOPSIS

We have put together a list of words that are similar to CARYOPSIS.

6 Alternative Words Similar to caryopsis

1 Grain Noun      Synonym Words Like Grain
2 Seed Noun      Synonym Words Like Seed
3 Amaranth Noun      Hyponym
4 Barleycorn Noun      Hyponym
5 Kernel Noun      Hyponym Words Like Kernel
6 Rye Noun      Hyponym

5 definitions of caryopsis

1 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.
2 dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
3 See grain.
4 In botany, a small, one-seeded, dry, indehiscent fruit, in which the thin seed-coat is adherent throughout to the very thin pericarp, as in wheat and all other cereal grains. Also spelled cariopsis.
5 A type of fruit in which the fruit skin is stuck to the seed coat; especially the grain of a cereal.
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