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PERISPERM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does perisperm mean?
• PERISPERM (noun)
The noun PERISPERM has 1 sense:
1. the nutritive tissue outside the sac containing the embryo in some seeds
Familiarity information: PERISPERM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The nutritive tissue outside the sac containing the embryo in some seeds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("perisperm" is a kind of...):
plant tissue (the tissue of a plant)
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