aril

Example Sentences

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The outer palet is to be considered as the metamorphosed leaf, in the aril of which the flower is produced.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

Fruit about size of child’s head or smaller, somewhat pear-shaped, juicy, pulp melon-like, 1 compartment with numerous seeds, each in a mucilaginous aril.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

Pistillate solitary; ovary, 3 locules and numerous ovules; stigma, 3 bifid divisions; fruit globose, narrowing at the ends, covered with tubercles; seeds numerous, lacking albumen, having red aril.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

But on closer inspection we observe that the flower stalks are combined into little groups, each group occupying the aril of one of the basal leaves.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de

The two Italian exiles, Carini aril Montanelli, accompanied me.

From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Hugo, Victor