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発音

• IPA: /ˈsɑː(ɹ)kəkɑː(ɹ)p/

名詞

sarcocarp (countable and uncountable, plural sarcocarps)

1. (botany) The mesocarp (fleshy middle layer of the pericarp of a fruit).
   • 1864, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “The Presents Are Delivered”, in A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome. […], volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 332:

     In throwing Afa, the reverend man, or the scholar, if sufficiently advanced, takes 16 of the fleshy nuts of a palm, resembling the cocoa-tree; these are cleared of sarcocarp, and are marked with certain Afa-du, or Afa strokes.

2. (archaic) Any fruit which is fleshy throughout.

参照

• “sarcocarp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• acrocarps