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Definition of Seed coat
1. Noun. Protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants.
Generic synonyms: Reproductive Structure
Group relationships: Seed
Derivative terms: Testaceous
Definition of Seed coat
1. Noun. The protective outer cover of a seed ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seed Coat
Literary usage of Seed coat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"In some genera the inner seed coat becomes thickened along th« course of the
vascular bundles and growing into the endosperm produces the characteristic ..."
2. Public School Methods (1921)
"(c) seed coat. The third important part of the seed is the seed coat. Draw out
the fact that the embryo, which is very tiny and delicate, cannot be expected ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"A peculiar feature of the cells of the seed coat is that the substance of their
large nuclei is arranged in such a manner as to form very distinct reticula ..."
4. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"In the seventh case the embryo exhibits two (only exceptionally more than two)
cotyledons, which are drawn out of the seed-coat during germination, ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1871)
"an " albumen ;" and that all seeds provided with an albumen, have only one solitary
seed-coat, aside from the albumen itself. * In many other seeds, ..."
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