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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The union in flowering plants of two sperm nuclei with three nuclei in the embryo sac. One sperm nucleus unites with the egg to form a diploid zygote, and the other unites with two polar nuclei to form the triploid, primary endosperm nucleus.
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