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ENDOSPERM: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

Pronunciation:  'endu`spurm

Matching Terms:  Endospermic

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants
 
 See Also: reproductive structure, seed

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\En"do*sperm\, n. [Endo- + Gr. ? seed.] (Bot.)
The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that
formed within the embryo sac.
 
Biology Dictionary
 
 Definition: Nutritive tissue in a seed; in angiosperms it's triploid and is formed in the embryo sac after fertilization. In gymnosperms, it's haploid and is derived from the sterile portion of the female gametophyte. Compare perisperm.
 
 Synonyms: albumen
 

 

 

 

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