Associations to the word «Endosperm»

Wiktionary

ENDOSPERM, noun. (biology) tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid

Dictionary definition

ENDOSPERM, noun. Nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats