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語源

From meso- +‎ -carp (from Ancient Greek μέσος (mésos, “middle”) + καρπός (karpós, “fruit”)).

名詞

mesocarp (countable and uncountable, plural mesocarps)

1. (botany) The middle layer of the pericarp of a fruit. In many fruits such as drupes and tomatoes, the mesocarp is fleshy

   Synonym: sarcocarp

   • 2013, Caspar Henderson, “Mystaceus”, in The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st Century Bestiary, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 198:

     A few years ago a message from God was found in a tomato in Yorkshire. The Arabic letters were clearly visible, for those who could see them, spelled out in two halves of mesocarp, endocarp and seeds cradled within mandalas of indigestible skin.

派生語

• mesocarpic

アナグラム

• capsomer, compares, compears, pomeracs, precomas