Terms related to cotton fruit anatomy:
- Boll: a name for the fruit of cotton
- Capsule: a simple dry dehiscent fruit, with two or more carpels
- Locule: a cavity of the ovary in which ovules are found
- Ovary: the enlarged basal portion of the pistil, which becomes the fruit
- Ovule: a structure that contains the egg cell; becomes the seed after fertilization
- Pericarp: the fruit wall that develops from the ovary wall that will form the exocarp, mesocarp, and endocarp
- Pistil: the female portion of the flower that usually consists of the ovary, the style, and the stigma
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