from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The middle, usually fleshy layer of a fruit wall.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The middle layer of the pericarp of a fruit. In many fruits such as drupes and tomatoes, the mesocarp is fleshy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The middle layer of a pericarp which consists of three distinct or dissimilar layers.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, the middle layer of a pericarp when it is possible to distinguish three dissimilar layers; the sarcocarp.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. the middle layer of a pericarp
meso- + Ancient Greek καρπός ("fruit"). (Wiktionary)