Endosperm
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noun.
The nutritive tissue within seeds of flowering plants, surrounding and absorbed by the embryo.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
In
botany
, the albumen of the seed; the substance stored in the ovule or seed about the embryo for its early nourishment.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
tissue
surrounding the
embryo
of
flowering plant
seeds
, that provides
nutrition
to the developing embryo; usually
triploid
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noun.
nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants
Word Usage
"The endosperm is more finely ground, but the germ and bran are ground separately and coarser and then it is all brought back together."
Form
endospermic
Hypernym
Words that are more generic or abstract
reproductive structure
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