Epispermic: alternatives and connections

A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists.

Seed of the Hibiscus abelmoschus, somewhat resembling millet, brought from Egypt and the West Indies, and having a flavor like that of…

Producing one seed only in a seed pod.

A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water…

Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

The act of covering with boards; also, boards, collectively; or a covering made of boards.

That part of a garment covering the body, as distinguished from the parts covering the limbs.

To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.

An acidulated fermented drink of the Arabs and Egyptians, made from millet seed and various astringent substances; also, an intoxicati…

A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which contain th…

A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of…

A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorp…

Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for de…

To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, op…

A covering in front, for ornament or other purpose; an exterior covering or sheathing; as, the facing of an earthen slope, sea wall, e…

A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.

A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is laid, in thatching houses.

To draw a harrow over, as for the purpose of breaking clods and leveling the surface, or for covering seed; as, to harrow land.