Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The nutritive tissue within seeds of flowering plants, surrounding and absorbed by the embryo.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, the albumen of the seed; the substance stored in the ovule or seed about the embryo for its early nourishment. By recent authors it is limited to the deposit formed within the embryo-sac. In some seeds, as of the Cannaceæ, there is an additional deposit within the testa, but outside of the embryo-sac, which is distinguished as the perisperm. See
albumen , 2, and cut underepisperm .
Wiktionary
- n. biology tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) The albumen of a seed; -- limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.
WordNet 3.0
- n. nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants
Examples
“The endosperm is more finely ground, but the germ and bran are ground separately and coarser and then it is all brought back together.”
“The endosperm is the food store for the developing seedling.”
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1983 - Presentation Speech
“Popcorn pops because the pericarp is strong enough to hold in the steam created when the endosperm, which is 14.5 percent water, is heated — strong enough, that is, until the steam reaches 177 degrees C. and the pressure builds to 9.5 kilograms per square centimeter.”
“In this way the starchy, carbohydrate-rich center, called the endosperm, is separated from both the dark, fibrous bran and the wheat embryo, called the wheat germ.”
“The endosperm from the Greek: “within the seed” is often the only part of the grain consumed.”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“• Flour corns, including the standard varieties of blue corn, are soft and easily ground because their endosperm is a discontinuous and weak combination of relatively little protein, mostly waxy starch, and air pockets.”
Simon & Schuster: On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
“This fine white powder called “flour” is, in fact, the ground endosperm, which is about 67 percent carbohydrate, 9 percent to 14 percent protein, and the rest water The amount of protein in flour can vary according to what kind of wheat is used.”
“_Balanophora_, the embryo is developed from a cell of the endosperm, which is formed from the upper polar nucleus only, the egg apparatus becoming disorganized.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
“The endosperm-nucleus divides rapidly to produce a cellular tissue which fills up the interior of the rapidly-growing embryo-sac, and forms a tissue, known as endosperm, in which is stored a supply of nourishment for the use later on of the embryo.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
“The macrospore or embryo-sac produces a prothallium called the endosperm, in which archegonia or corpuscula are formed; and lastly, in typical dicotyledons it is only lately that any trace of a prothallium from the microspore or pollen cell has been discovered, while the macrospore or embryo-sac produces only two or three prothallium cells, known as antipodal cells, and two or three oospheres, known as germinal vesicles.”
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