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aril

[′ar·əl]
(botany)
An outgrowth of the funiculus in certain seeds that either remains as an appendage or envelops the seed.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Aril

 

(also caruncle), an appendage of a seed. Arils, which are usually succulent and fleshy, attract birds and ants that distribute the seeds. Some types of arils are called arillodes and arilli.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Pomegranate powder is prepared from arils that have been dried and milled.
5g of pericarp or aril flesh at the middle position between stem end and stylar end was placed into moisture can and dried in oven at 60[degrees] C for 4 days.
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After agitation, the material was filtered through synthetic fabric and processed for 5min in an Experimental Decanting Apparatus, using a controlled flow of water to promote the entrainment of arils and the decanting of the seeds.
We also use [pomegranate] a lot for desserts; you can make a nice cheesecake with pomegranate, where you just put the arils on top, or you make a tart if it's the season."
The arils should eject from the pomegranate directly into the bowl, leaving only a dozen or more deeply embedded arils to remove.
Juice from the aril (seed cover) of the pomegranate can provide about 16% of an adult's daily vitamin C requirement per 100 ml serving.
POM Wonderful's Fresh Pomegranate Arils can be enjoyed on their own as a crunchy, healthy snack or added to tossed salads, yogurt, cereals, and cocktails.
It is comprised of a mesocarp and red arils in- side the fruit.
The pom's rubylike arils (seed casings) are a familiar friend to cruciverbalists like Seattle's Jim Horne, who writes the Wordplay blog for The New York Times.
Inside a pomegranate is about 700-800 tightly packed seed casings called arils that are deep red in colour when nicely ripe.