Crossword-Solution: EPICARP 7 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

This, however, is only a fleshy outer rind-- epicarp--which, as it ripens, opens into two equal parts, when within is seen a spherical polished nut, surrounding an aril, the mace, which is of a bright yellow colour.

Mooden Sheriff ascribes its emetic properties to the pulp alone, the epicarp and seeds being inactive according to his authority.

Pericarp consists of: 1, epicarp; 2-3, layers of mesocarp, with 4, fibro-vascular bundle; 5, palisade layer; and 6, endocarp; _ss_, spermoderm, consists of 8, sclerenchyma, and 9, parenchyma; _End_, endosperm (Tschirch and Oesterle)] A section cut crosswise through the entire fruit would present the appearance shown in Fig.

The cells of the epicarp are broad and polygonal, sometimes regularly four-sided, about 15-35 µ broad.

The layers or concentric portions of a drupe, or of any pericarp which is thus separable, are named, when thus distinguishable into three portions,-- _Epicarp_, the external layer, often the mere skin of the fruit, _Mesocarp_, the middle layer, which is commonly the fleshy part, and _Endocarp_, the innermost layer, the stone.