noun
- the walls of ripened ovaries in flowering plants that enclose and protect seeds
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The pericarps of apples are thick and fleshy.
- Botanists study how pericarps develop from flower ovaries.
- Different fruits have varying pericarp structures.
- The pericarps protect the seeds during dispersal.
- Cherry pericarps are soft and edible.
- Walnut pericarps are hard and woody.