Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

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

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

Etymologies

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French, from Latin tertius the third.

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