pericarp

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɛɹɪˌkɑːp/    美 /ˈpɛɹɪˌkɑɹp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The outermost layer, or skin, of a ripe fruit or ovary.
    — When, as in the cherry, the different layers of the pericarp are well-defined and largely developed, they received distinctive names ; the outer skin is the epicarp (epi, upon, carpon, a fruit), the middle fleshy part is the mesocarp (mesos, middle) ; and the innermost hard shell is the endocarp (endos, within) ; in other words the pericarp is made up of epicarp, mesocarp, and endocarp. […] In all normal fruits these three layers of the pericarp are present […].
  2. The outer layer of anything. figuratively,rare
    — He learned, afternoon after afternoon, how to edge her into delicious frenzies, how to tremble the clitoris, pericarp, and tip.

词形变化

pericarps plural

词汇关系

衍生词
pericarpal pericarpic pericarpous
相关词
endocarp exocarp mesocarp

词源

From French péricarpe, from New Latin pericarpium, from Ancient Greek περικάρπιον (perikárpion, “pod, husk, shell”), from περι- (peri-, “around”) + καρπός (karpós, “fruit”). By surface analysis, peri- + -carp.
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