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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 seedsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PERISPERM (noun)


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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