peplolite

[Gr. peplos =a mantle, a robe, and lithos a stone.] Min.: The same as ESMARKITE (q. v.). *pěp'-lūs, s . [Lat., from Gr. peplos .] Anc. Costume: A large, full, upper robe, worn especially by Greek women; a mantle. pe-pô, s. [Lat.=a pumpkin, from Gr. pep on =a kind of melon. Bot.: A one-celled, many-seeded, inferior, inde his cent, fleshy fruit, with the seeds attached to parietal pulpy placente. The cavity at maturity is often filled with pulp, and sometimes divided by folds of the placenta into spurious cells. Examples. the Cucumber, the Melon, and the Gourd. Lindley places it among his Syncarp i (q. v.).