p pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pk pl pm pn po pp pr ps pt pu pv pw px py

Перевод: pericarp

[существительное]
околоплодник [бот.] ; перикарпий [бот.]

Тезаурус:

1. Fruiting Dipteryx panamensis (Leguminosae) trees on Barro Colorado Island are visited by 16 mammal species, taking pericarp or seeds.
2. The agouti-dispersed palm, A strocaryum stand leyanum, produces seeds that have a much smaller chance of survival if the pericarp around them is not removed and they are not buried.
3. Technically, a nut is a single-seeded fruit, with the embryo free in a cavity and the pericarp hardened and woody.
4. Of the fruit-eating pigeons, obligate frugivores in tropical Australia, one group does not take grit and the seeds are passed through the gut while the pericarp is digested, but the brown and white-headed pigeons have a large muscular gizzard typical of columbids and take grit, which means that the seeds are ground up and later digested.
5. There is predation by peccaries and rodents, which eat seeds (most of the others eating the pericarp and leaving the seeds under the trees): occasionally primates, coatis, kinkajous and so on disperse seeds but only the bat, Artibeus lituratus, the agouti and the squirrel Sciurus granatensis disperse large numbers, the last two being seed predators most of the time, but sometimes dropping or scatter hoarding seeds.
6. Burying conceals the seeds from other predators, for which they are an important resource in Central America, while the agouti's peeling off of pericarp before burial may remove any invertebrate larvae therein, before they can get to the seed.
7. (The pericarp is the seed's enclosure, derived from the ovary wall.