Usually means: Dry, single-seed, indehiscent fruit.
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  1. caryopsis: Merriam-Webster
  2. caryopsis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. caryopsis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. caryopsis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. caryopsis: Vocabulary.com
  6. caryopsis: Wordnik
  7. caryopsis: Wiktionary
  8. caryopsis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. caryopsis: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. caryopsis: Dictionary.com
  11. Caryopsis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Caryopsis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. caryopsis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. caryopsis: Rhymezone
  15. Caryopsis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. caryopsis: FreeDictionary.org
  17. caryopsis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. caryopsis: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. caryopsis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (caryopsis)

noun:  (botany) A type of fruit in which the fruit skin is stuck to the seed coat; especially the grain of a cereal.

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