caryopsis

English

Etymology

From caryo- + -opsis.

Noun

caryopsis (plural caryopses or caryopsides)

1. (botany) A type of fruit in which the fruit skin is stuck to the seed coat; especially the grain of a cereal.
   • 1995, Romuald Kosina, Tetraploids of the Genus Triticum in the Light of Caryopsis Structure:

     The variation of caryopsis characters in species of Aegilops and wheat diploids is similar to that of wheat tetraploids .

Translations

type of fruit

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 穎果 / 颖果 (zh) (yǐngguǒ)

• Czech: obilka f
• Dutch: graanvrucht f
• Esperanto: kariopso
• Finnish: jyvä (fi)
• French: caryopse (fr) m
• German: Karyopse (de) f
• Hungarian: szemtermés (hu)
• Italian: cariosside (it) f
• Japanese: 穎果 (ja) (えいか, eika)
• Persian: گندمه (fa) (gandome)
• Polish: ziarniak m inan
• Portuguese: cariopse f
• Romanian: cariopsă (ro) f
• Spanish: cariópside (es) f, cariopse f
• Tagalog: butilbunga
• Welsh: caryopsis m, ffrwyth glaswellt m

References

• “caryopsis”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• caryopsis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia