Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CA-RY-OP'SIS, n. [Gr. καρυα, a walnut, and οπτω, to see.]

In botany, a pericarp which is one-celled, superior, indehiscent, dry, with the integuments of the seed cohering inseparably with the endocarp, so that the two are undistinguishable in the ovarian state, evincing its compound nature by two or more stigmas, but nevertheless unilocular, having but one ovule, as wheat and barley, &c. – Lindley.