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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a supposed fourth integument of some ovules, counting from the outermost. It is really only a layer of the secundine or of the nucleus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany, archaic A supposed fourth
integument of anovule , counting from the outside.
Etymologies
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Latin quartus, "fourth".
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