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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The female gametophyte of a seed plant, within which the embryo develops.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the reproductive cell of the ovule in phanerogams, containing the embryonal vesicle.
- noun In conchology, same as
protoconch .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Bot.) See under
embryonic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
megagametophyte in aflowering plant .
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