endosperm

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛndəˌspɜːm/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɛndəˌspɝm/

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈendəˌspɜːm/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈendəˌspøːm/

Noun

endosperm (plural endosperms)

1. (botany) The tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid.

Derived terms

• endospermic

Translations

tissue

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胚乳 (zh) (pēirǔ)

• Czech: endosperm m
• Finnish: endospermi, siemenvalkuainen
• French: albumen (fr) m
• German: Endosperm n
• Greek: ενδοσπέρμιο (el) n (endospérmio)
• Hindi: भ्रूणपोष m (bhrūṇpoṣ)
• Hungarian: endospermium, táplálószövet, magfehérje, magbél
• Icelandic: fræhvíta f
• Italian: endosperma m
• Latvian: endosperma f, miltums m
• Lithuanian: endosperma f
• Polish: bielmo (pl) n
• Portuguese: endosperma m
• Romanian: endosperm (ro) n
• Spanish: endosperma m
• Swedish: frövita c
• Tagalog: lukad

Further reading

• endosperm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French endosperme or German Endosperm.

Noun

endosperm n (plural endosperme)

1. (botany) endosperm

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	endosperm	endospermul	endosperme	endospermele
genitive-dative	endosperm	endospermului	endosperme	endospermelor
vocative	endospermule		endospermelor