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APICAL PLACENTATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does apical placentation mean?
• APICAL PLACENTATION (noun)
The noun APICAL PLACENTATION has 1 sense:
1. where one or few ovules develop at the top of a simple or compound ovary
Familiarity information: APICAL PLACENTATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Where one or few ovules develop at the top of a simple or compound ovary
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("apical placentation" is a kind of...):
placentation (arrangement of the ovules in the placenta and of the placentas in the ovary)
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