podosperm

English

Etymology

From podo- + Ancient Greek [Term?] (“seed”). Compare French podosperme.

Noun

podosperm (plural podosperms)

(botany) The stalk of a seed or ovule.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “podosperm”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)