PROEMBRYO

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo.

2.
n.

The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.


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