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Meaning of SARCOCARP

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Sar"co*carp\, n. [Sarco- + Gr. ? fruit: cf. F.
sarcocarpe.] (Bot.)
The fleshy part of a stone fruit, situated between the skin,
or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach. See
Illust. of {Endocarp}.
Note: The term has also been used to denote any fruit which
      is fleshy throughout. --M. T. Masters.
 
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