💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Perisperm"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| endospermnoun | (botany) The tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid. |
| epispermnoun | (archaic, botany) The seed coat (outer, protective layer of the seed of a flowering plant). |
| vitellusnoun | (now rare, biology) The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk. |
| mesospermnoun | (botany) A membrane of a seed. |
| nucellusnoun | (botany) The tissue which surrounds and protects the embryo and lies inside of the integuments. |
| pericarpnoun | (botany) The outermost layer, or skin, of a ripe fruit or ovary. |
| loculamentnoun | (botany) locule; loculus (compartment of the ovary where the seed is placed) |
| endocarpnoun | (botany) The woody inner layer of the pericarp of some fruits that contains the seed: the tissue (uncountable) or the structure that it composes (countable). |
| perinenoun | A sporoderm layer surrounding the exine of many spores |
| spermodermnoun | (botany, archaic) A seed coat or testa. |
| pericambiumnoun | (biology, dated) A pericycle. |
| aleuronenoun | The outer layer (and its major cell type and its specialized protein) of the endosperm. |
| tercinenoun | (archaic, botany) A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac. |
| endotegmennoun | (botany) The part of the seed coat that develops from the inner epidermis of the inner integument. |
| integumentnoun | (biology) An outer protective covering such as the feathers or skin of an animal, a rind or shell. |
| perisomenoun | (biology) The outer body of an invertebrate; the integument |
| perisomanoun | (zoology) A perisome. |
| seed coatnoun | (botany) The protective outer cover of a seed |
| ovulenoun | (botany) The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments. |
| podospermnoun | (botany) The stalk of a seed or ovule. |
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