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How to use caryopsis in a sentence

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The fibrous seed coat or hull of most commercial barley varieties is cemented to the caryopsis and is not removed during threshing.
The single-seeded fruit known as a caryopsis consists of the pericarp and testa surrounding the endosperm and the embedded embryo.
A caryopsis was considered germinated when the radicle pierced the seed coat, approximately 10 h after the start of imbibition.
Underneath the protective layers, or integuments, that grower thinner from the outside inwards there is the caryopsis.
For rice, foxtail millet and vetch these were calculated on the basis of presence of caryopsis or cotyledon.
All of the caryopses are round to oval in broad view and scutellum length is less than two-thirds total caryopsis length with broad width.
The colours of the logo are set out in detail in the production specification. At the top of the grains is the tiny gap where the embryo of the rice caryopsis is located before refining.
These are present in the same relative proportions as they exist in the intact caryopsis.
Examples from Classical Literature
The caryopsis is very narrow, and the rachilla long and feathered with hairs.
In Lolium and Agropyrum the caryopsis is still more wheat-like and grooved.
When the word caryopsis is employed, I mean it strictly in the botanical sense explained above.
The caryopsis is, however, much more slender than in Agropyrum.
The caryopsis is shorter and more ovoid than in other Bromes.
Although typical grasses form a caryopsis as described, exceptions occur.
Caryopsis grooved, blunt and more tightly held in the palea.
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