🇬🇧 Pericarp meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Pericarp is the special outer layer of a fruit that grows from the flower’s ovary and wraps around the seed. It can be thin and papery like in a peanut, or thick and juicy like the skin and fleshy part of a peach. When you bite into a cherry or an apple, almost everything you eat—except the hard seed—is part of the pericarp.

When I bit the peach, the pericarp squirted juice right into my eye, and the peach totally won the battle.

The tomato’s pericarp is so squishy that one tiny squeeze turned it into salad confetti.

The cherry pericarp is tasty, but the pit inside is like a tiny rock with anger issues.

The coconut’s pericarp is so hard it’s basically a helmet for shy milk.

In many fruits, the pericarp has three layers—outer skin, fleshy middle, and inner part—so when you eat a peach, you’re basically having a three-layer pericarp party in your mouth.

She cracked the small fruit, and the wet pericarp clung to the seed. She peeled back the pericarp with careful fingers. The pericarp smelled fresh; she saved both seed and pericarp, pressed them into warm soil. The pericarp kept the seed safe through rain. Weeks later she cheered at a green sprout.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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