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- French · derived frompérisperme
- English todayperisperm
From French périsperme. See peri- and sperm.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
perisperm
Today it means: The layer of nutritive tissue, derived from the nucellus, that surrounds the embryo of a seed in some angiosperms. Full definition →
French périsperme