Definition of Synergid

1. Noun. (botany) Either of two naked nucleated cells at the top of the embryo sac that cooperate with the oosphere in the production of the embryo ¹

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Definition of Synergid

1. a cell found in the embryo sac of a seed plant [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Synergid

synecologists
synecology
synectic
synectin
syned
synedria
synedrium
synereses
syneresis
synergetic
synergetically
synergia
synergias
synergic
synergically
synergid (current term)
synergids
synergies
synergise
synergised
synergises
synergising
synergism
synergisms
synergist
synergistic
synergistically
synergists
synergize
synergized

Literary usage of Synergid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"In some cases a synergid is fertilized, and then the resulting embryo should probably be regarded as normal; it certainly is not apogamous. ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"The other seems to play the part of a synergid and it likewise has a distinct ... The single synergid persists even to this stage and remains distinct from ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"The other seems to play the part of a synergid and it likewise has a distinct ... The single synergid persists even to this stage and remains distinct from ..."

4. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1921)
"An embryo-sac shortly after fertilization, showing one synergid, Sy, intact, ... Sy, persistent synergid. PT, path of pollen tube. X 210. FIG. 14. ..."

5. Photo-chemistry by Samuel Edward Sheppard (1914)
"It must tend, any such synergid transferred from its original locus, to spread the quality of strife, of conflict, of antagonism, of which it is a unit and ..."

6. Photo-chemistry by Samuel Edward Sheppard (1914)
"It must tend, any such synergid transferred from its original locus, to spread the quality of strife, of conflict, of antagonism, of which it is a unit and ..."

7. Circulars by Johns Hopkins University, Stanford University (1900)
"The other seems to play the part of a synergid and it likewise has no distinct wall until a much later stage. At about the time the pollen tube reaches the ..."

8. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"In some cases a synergid is fertilized, and then the resulting embryo should probably be regarded as normal; it certainly is not apogamous. ..."

9. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1902)
"Double fertilization; u, micropylar polar; e, egg ; s, synergid; f, tracheid ; XI 500. ... Two-celled embryo ; endosperm massed about embryo ; s, synergid ..."

10. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"The other seems to play the part of a synergid and it likewise has a distinct ... The single synergid persists even to this stage and remains distinct from ..."

11. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"The other seems to play the part of a synergid and it likewise has a distinct ... The single synergid persists even to this stage and remains distinct from ..."

12. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1921)
"An embryo-sac shortly after fertilization, showing one synergid, Sy, intact, ... Sy, persistent synergid. PT, path of pollen tube. X 210. FIG. 14. ..."

13. Photo-chemistry by Samuel Edward Sheppard (1914)
"It must tend, any such synergid transferred from its original locus, to spread the quality of strife, of conflict, of antagonism, of which it is a unit and ..."

14. Photo-chemistry by Samuel Edward Sheppard (1914)
"It must tend, any such synergid transferred from its original locus, to spread the quality of strife, of conflict, of antagonism, of which it is a unit and ..."

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