ENDOSPERM

endosperm

(noun) nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

endosperm (plural endosperms)

(biology) tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid

Source: Wiktionary


En"do*sperm, n. Etym: [Endo- + Gr. (Bot.)

Definition: The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

7 January 2025

UNINFORMATIVELY

(adverb) in an uninformative manner; “‘I can’t tell you when the manager will arrive,’ he said rather uninformatively”


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