1. Noun
The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen.
2. Noun
An ovum.
3. Noun
a small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilization
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