Crossword-Solution: EXOCARP
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Exocarp | n. | The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “EXOCARP”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Apple rind, botanically | 1 answer |
| Outermost layer, as orange rind | 1 answer |
| Skin of a plum | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXOCARP (3)
The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.
But more commonly only two portions of a drupe are distinguished, and are named, the outer one _Sarcocarp_ or _Exocarp_, for the flesh, the first name referring to the fleshy character, the second to its being an external layer; and _Putamen_ or _Endocarp_, the _Stone_, within.
Fruit with a 4-valved, firm and at length dry exocarp (involucre), falling away from the smooth and crustaceous or bony endocarp or nut-shell, which is incompletely 2-celled, and at the base mostly 4-celled.--Fine timber-trees, with hard and very tough wood, and scaly buds, from which in spring are put forth usually both kinds of flowers, the sterile below and the fertile above the leaves.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1982–2009).