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from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, provided with or characterized by perisperm.
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- adjective Relating to the
perisperm .
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Endospermic food-reserve has evident advantages over perispermic, and the latter is comparatively rarely found and only in non-progressive series.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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