Usually means: Nutritive tissue in some seeds.
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  1. perisperm: Merriam-Webster
  2. perisperm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. perisperm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. perisperm: Collins English Dictionary
  5. perisperm: Vocabulary.com
  6. perisperm: Wordnik
  7. perisperm: Wiktionary
  8. Perisperm, perisperm: Dictionary.com
  9. Perisperm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Perisperm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. perisperm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. perisperm: Rhymezone
  13. Perisperm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. perisperm: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. perisperm: FreeDictionary.org
  16. perisperm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. perisperm: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. perisperm: Medical dictionary

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (perisperm)

noun:  (biology) The layer of nutritive tissue, derived from the nucellus, that surrounds the embryo of a seed in some angiosperms.

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