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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The innermost wall of a spore or pollen grain.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, the inner coat of the shell of the pollengrains in phenogamous plants, of the spores of fungi, etc. It is a transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity.

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

  • noun (Bot.) A transparent, extensible membrane of extreme tenuity, which forms the innermost coating of grains of pollen.

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

  • noun botany, palynology The innermost wall of a spore or pollen grain

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[German, from Latin intus, within; see en in Indo-European roots.]

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