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Perisperm

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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).
perinenounA sporoderm layer surrounding the exine of many spores
spermodermnoun(botany, archaic) A seed coat or testa.
pericambiumnoun(biology, dated) A pericycle.
aleuronenounThe 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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