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sarcocarp

(Science: botany) The fleshy part of a stone fruit, situated between the skin, or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach.

The term has also been used to denote, any fruit which is fleshy throughout.

Origin: Sacro- _ Gr. Fruit: cf. F. Sarcocarpe.