Usually means: Outer covering of a seed.
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  1. episperm: Merriam-Webster
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  4. episperm: Wordnik
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  7. Episperm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. episperm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. episperm: Rhymezone
  10. Episperm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. episperm: FreeDictionary.org
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Definitions from Wiktionary (episperm)

▸ noun:  (archaic, botany) The seed coat (outer, protective layer of the seed of a flowering plant).

Similar:
testa, seed coat, perisperm, endosperm, mesosperm, integument, exotegmen, exine, spermoderm, exosporium, more...

Opposite:
endosperm, perisperm, mesocarp

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Similar:
testa, seed coat, perisperm, endosperm, mesosperm, integument, exotegmen, exine, spermoderm, exosporium, more...

Opposite:
endosperm, perisperm, mesocarp



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