Endosperm

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The nutritive tissue within seeds of flowering plants, surrounding and absorbed by the embryo.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany, the albumen of the seed; the substance stored in the ovule or seed about the embryo for its early nourishment.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    reproductive structure   
    Form
    endospermic   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    geniculate    reticular    boatloads    arcuate    mediodorsal   
     
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