caryopsis Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
    grain.

WordNet

Car`y*op"sis noun
Etymology
NL., fr. gr. hut, kernel + sight, form.
Wordforms
plural Caryopses
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.

Webster 1913