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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In botany, a supposed third coat of an ovule, really a layer of the primine or secundine, or the secundine itself.

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  1. n. botany A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac. Cf. quintine.

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  1. French, from Latin tertius the third. (Wiktionary)

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