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 thenucleus of anovule and surrounding the embryo sac.
Etymologies
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French, from Latin tertius the third.
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