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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.

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  • noun botany, archaic A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.

Etymologies

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Latin quartus, "fourth".

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