Outermost layer of the pericarp of fruits as the skin of a peach or grape.
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Examples for "epicarp"
Examples for "epicarp"
1The fruit is a drupe, having a downy outer coat, called the epicarp, which encloses the reticulated hard stony shell or endocarp.
2They found charred epicarps of wild breadfruit that still grew in the region, even now, twenty thousand years later.