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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- n. botany, archaic A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A supposed fourth integument of an ovule, counting from the outside.
Etymologies
- Latin quartus, "fourth". (Wiktionary)
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