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Definition of Endosperm
1. Noun. Nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants.
Definition of Endosperm
1. n. The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.
Definition of Endosperm
1. Noun. (biology) tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Endosperm
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Endosperm
1. Tissue present in the seeds of angiosperms, external to and surrounding the embryo, that it provides with nourishment in the form of starch or other food reserves. Formed by the division of the endosperm mother cell after fertilization, may be absorbed by the embryo prior to seed maturation or may persist in the mature seed. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Endosperm
Literary usage of Endosperm
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"If this is true, the endosperm of gymnosperms is not the same as that of angiosperms.
If the test of the number of chromosomes be applied, to decide whether ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The position of the embryo in relation to the endosperm varies, ... The formation
of endosperm starts, as has been stated, from the endosperm nucleus. ..."
3. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"Development of the endosperm was also induced experimentally in the absence of
fertilization. When pollination is prevented, many of the ovules die within ..."
4. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1897)
"XL THE endosperm. The actual fusion of the two polar nuclei to form the primary
endosperm nucleus was not seen, although in one or two instances they were ..."
5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1902)
"The Histology of the endosperm during Germination in Tamus communis and Galium
Tricorne. By WALTER GARDINER, MA, FRS, Fellow and Bursar of Clare College, ..."
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