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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany: The orifice at the apex of the inner coat of the ovule.
- n. The inner peristome of mosses. See cut under exostome.
- n. In zoology, same as endostoma.
Wiktionary
- n. botany The foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.
- n. zoology An endostoma.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) The foramen or passage through the inner integument of an ovule.
- n. (Zoöl.) And endostoma.
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- See endostoma. (Wiktionary)
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