proembryo

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A cluster of cells in the ovule of a fertilized flowering plant that has not yet formed into an embryo.
  2. The protonema of mosses.

Word forms

proembryo proembryos

Etymology

From pro- + embryo.

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