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/ˈɛndəʊkˌɑːp/
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NOUN
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the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking
How To Use endocarp In A Sentence
- In peach fruit, cell numbers in the endocarp appear to be fixed several weeks after full bloom.
- The fruits usually bear two or three seeds that are covered by an endocarp that opens when the fruit pulp is removed.
- The fruit's outer coat (epicarp) is peeled, pulp is sliced off the stony "seed" (endocarp), sun-dried, ground, mixed with blood to a brown, sticky, fibrous mixture (lokot) and eaten or sold in markets (Turkana). Chapter 7
- The fruiting body has an endocarp which resembles a grappling hook, from which the plant takes its common name. Chapter 7
- Within this husk is the endocarp or seed shell that resembles the female anatomy. The Fruit Hunters
- The epicarp is either smooth or rugose (sulcate or covered in scales or spines). the endocarp is the membranous or woody portion of the fruit. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
- The seed is enclosed in a hard endocarp.
- Its own fruit is roughly the size of a peach, with a stony endocarp like an oversized peach pit. The Song of The Dodo
- The fruit is a one-seeded drupe consisting of a fleshy exocarp and mesocarp and a hard endocarp that is united with the seed coat.
- Surface deposits are covering materials on seed coats and are apparently derived from the endocarp.
