endosperm

English

Noun

endosperm (plural endosperms)

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

Derived terms

• endospermic

Translations

tissue

Chinese: Mandarin: 胚乳 (zh) (pēirǔ) Czech: endosperm m Finnish: endospermi, siemenvalkuainen French: albumen (fr) m German: Endosperm n Greek: ενδοσπέρμιο (el) n (endospérmio) Hindi: भ्रूणपोष m (bhrūṇpoṣ) Hungarian: endospermium, táplálószövet, magfehérje, magbél Icelandic: fræhvíta f Italian: endosperma m Latvian: endosperma f, miltums m Lithuanian: endosperma f Polish: bielmo (pl) n Portuguese: endosperma m Romanian: endosperm (ro) n Spanish: endosperma m Swedish: frövita c Tagalog: lukad

Further reading

• endosperm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French endosperme or German Endosperm.

Noun

endosperm n (plural endosperme)

1. (botany) endosperm

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	endosperm	endospermul		endosperme	endospermele
genitive-dative	endosperm	endospermului		endosperme	endospermelor
vocative	endospermule			endospermelor