Sarcocarp

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sarcocarp \Sar"co*carp\, n. [Sarco- + Gr. ? fruit: cf. F.
     sarcocarpe.] (Bot.)
     The fleshy part of a stone fruit, situated between the skin,
     or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach. See
     Illust. of {Endocarp}.
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     Note: The term has also been used to denote any fruit which
           is fleshy throughout. --M. T. Masters.
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