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. ☞ The term has also been used to denote any fruit which is fleshy throughout. M. T. Masters.