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Pedicle The flower stem. 



Periphery The area about the circumference. 



Pock-marked. . . Blotched with shallow indentures irregular in size 

 and shape, more or less accentuated by the con- 

 trasting color pattern and netted appearance of 

 the surrounding tissue. 



Pulpy When the flesh is very coarse and exceedingly 



fibrous. 



Quality Refers to the physical and chemical structure of 



fruit as designating its value as an edible product. 



Reniform Kidney-shaped. 



Reticulate Marked with a raised corky, lace-like netting on 



the exterior surface of the fruit, usually gray in 

 color and variable in size and amount. 



Retuse With a shallow notch at the apex. 



Ribs Longitudinal areas more or less extending above 



the surface of the fruit. 



Rind That portion of the fruit enclosing the flesh; 



the epicarp, when more or less soft and tough. 



Sepal The calyx lobe. 



Serrate Margin with sharp teeth that point forward. 



Shell That portion of the fruit enclosing the flesh, the 



epicarp when hard and rigid. 

 Sinuate When the marginal line is more deeply waved than 



undulate. 



Sinus A space or recess between two lobes. 



Texture With reference to the structural character of the 



part in question; the degree of coarseness, stringi- 



ness or pulpiness. 

 Truncate Terminating abruptly as though the ends were 



cut off; flattened or nearly so, at the ends. 



Turbinate Top-shaped, with the larger end at the base. 



Umbraculiform . Shaped like an umbrella. 



Undulate When the margin is a wavy line bending slightly 



inward and out. 



