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What is a caryopsis?

What is a caryopsis? Here are some definitions.

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  1. 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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The caryopsis is, however, much more slender than in Agropyrum.
A caryopsis was considered germinated when the radicle pierced the seed coat, approximately 10 h after the start of imbibition.
The single-seeded fruit known as a caryopsis consists of the pericarp and testa surrounding the endosperm and the embedded embryo.
Underneath the protective layers, or integuments, that grower thinner from the outside inwards there is the caryopsis.
The colours of the logo are set out in detail in the production specification. At the top of the grains is the tiny gap where the embryo of the rice caryopsis is located before refining.
When the word caryopsis is employed, I mean it strictly in the botanical sense explained above.

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