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Endosperm

Endosperm Meaning & Definition
Endosperm Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Endosperm?

[n] nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants

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See Also | reproductive structure | seed

Endosperm In Webster's Dictionary

\En"do*sperm\, n. [Endo- + Gr. ? seed.] (Bot.) The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.

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