Chalaza: alternatives and connections

A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists.

The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oospore.

fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelops the seed

The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court.

To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat.

To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.

A layer of any substance covering another; a cover; a tegument; as, the coats of the eye; the coats of an onion; a coat of tar or varn…

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Cohering, or sticking together, as in a mass; capable of cohering; tending to cohere; as, cohesive clay.

To join, unite, or cohere; to have a close relation; as, one line of railroad connects with another; one argument connect with another.

The basal substance of the cell nucleus; a hyaline or granular substance, more or less fluid during life, in which the other parts of…

The skin or coat of a seed, especially the outer coat. See Testa.

The small aperture or foremen in the outer coat of the ovule of a plant.

the stalk of a plant ovule or seed

the stalk of a plant ovule or seed

The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support; -- called als…

The outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; the outer skin of a kernel; the husk.