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endosperm

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

The tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: reproductive structure

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Across languages

Translations

23 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Mandarin: 胚乳 (pēirǔ) — tissue
  • Czech: endosperm — tissue
  • Finnish: endospermi — tissue
  • Finnish: siemenvalkuainen — tissue
  • French: albumen — tissue
  • German: Endosperm — tissue
  • Greek: ενδοσπέρμιο (endospérmio) — tissue
  • Hindi: भ्रूणपोष (bhrūṇpoṣ) — tissue
  • Hungarian: endospermium — tissue
  • Hungarian: táplálószövet — tissue
  • Hungarian: magfehérje — tissue
  • Hungarian: magbél — tissue
  • Icelandic: fræhvíta — tissue
  • Italian: endosperma — tissue
  • Latvian: endosperma — tissue
  • Latvian: miltums — tissue
  • Lithuanian: endosperma — tissue
  • Polish: bielmo — tissue
  • Portuguese: endosperma — tissue
  • Romanian: endosperm — tissue
  • Spanish: endosperma — tissue
  • Swedish: frövita — tissue
  • Tagalog: lukad — tissue