endosperm

English

Noun

endosperm (plural endosperms)

(biology) tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid

Derived terms

endospermic

Translations

tissue

Finnish: endospermi
French: albumen (fr) m
Greek: ενδοσπέρμιο (el) n (endospérmio)
Icelandic: fræhvíta f
Italian: endosperma m
Latvian: endosperma f, miltums m

Lithuanian: endosperma f
Portuguese: endosperma m
Romanian: endosperm (ro) n
Spanish: endosperma m
Tagalog: lukad

Further reading

endosperm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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