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What is the name of the edible pulp inside a lemon?

Question #50980. Asked by Buck540.
Last updated Aug 26 2016.

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SOTHC
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SOTHC
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Answer has 3 votes.
The dictionary definition of a lemon is a yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh. So it looks like flesh maybe an answer.

Sep 13 2004, 4:08 PM
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Baloo55th
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Answer has 3 votes.
Pulp is the other answer I've found. Not very helpful...

Sep 13 2004, 4:17 PM
Buck540
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Buck540

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Sorry, no "yays" today, the correct answer is endocarp.

Sep 14 2004, 9:31 AM
wingmanrick
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wingmanrick

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Actually, the endocarp is "The hard inner layer of the pericarp of many fruits, such as the pit or stone of a cherry, peach, or olive." The "middle layer of pericarp, as the fleshy part of certain fruits", is known as the mesocarp.

Apr 02 2007, 11:03 PM
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Sarcocarp (Gr. "flesh" + "fruit"), or mesocarp, is a botanical term for the succulent and fleshy middle layer of the pericarp of drupaceous fruit, between the exocarp and the endocarp; it is usually the part of the fruit that is eaten. The term may also refer to any fruit which is fleshy throughout.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesocarp


NOUN: The middle, usually fleshy layer of a fruit wall.

link http://www.thefreedictionary.com/mesocarp


Sar·co·carp
n.
(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.

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

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Response last updated by LadyNym on Aug 26 2016.
Apr 02 2007, 11:15 PM
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