Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, an alleged fifth coat of an ovule, counting from the outermost. Compare
quartine .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf.
quartine , andtercine .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The
embryonic sac of anovule , sometimes regarded as an innermost fifthintegument .
Etymologies
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Latin quintus, "fifth".
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