Unscramble

p 3 e 1 r 1 i 1 c 3 a 1 r 1 p 3

8 letters · 14 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary

originFrom French péricarpe, from New Latin pericarpium, from Ancient Greek περικάρπιον (perikárpion, “pod, husk, shell”), from περι- (peri-, “around”) + καρπός (karpós, “fruit”). By surface analysis, peri- + -carp.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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