noun
definition
A tissue surrounding the seed in certain fruits such as pomegranates.
Examples of aril in a Sentence
The fruit is ripe in July, and is an oval, yellowish, fleshy berry, containing twelve or more seeds, each surrounded by a pulpy outer coat or aril.
E.S.E., there is a 13th-century church, dedicated to St Aril, who, according to tradition, was martyred in the 9th century by unconverted Serbs.
The pulp is of the nature of an aril, that is, an additional seed-coat.
Nephelium Longana, the longan tree, also a native of southern China, is cultivated in that country, in the Malay Peninsula, India and Ceylon for its fruit, which is smaller than that of the litchi, being half an inch to an inch in diameter with a nearly smooth yellowishbrown brittle skin, and containing a pulpy aril resembling that of the litchi in flavour.
Its fruits resemble dangling pink lanterns, with four seeds inside that are covered with an orange fleshy layer called an aril.
Fruit is a red aril, with a black seed, 1cm x 6 mm.
The fruit splits, revealing a pale pinkish interior which contrasts with the brightly colored aril.
The wide bell shaped seeds are covered with the brown, mostly wrinkled, aril skin.