ENDOSPERM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does endosperm mean? 

• ENDOSPERM (noun)
  The noun ENDOSPERM has 1 sense:

1. nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants

  Familiarity information: ENDOSPERM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDOSPERM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("endosperm" is a kind of...):

reproductive structure (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)

Holonyms ("endosperm" is a part of...):

seed (a mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa)