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proembryo

proembryo


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Proembryo  \Pro*em"bry*o\,  n.  [Pref.  pro-  +  embryo.  ]  (Bot.) 
  a  The  series  of  cells  formed  in  the  ovule  of  a  flowering 
  plant  after  fertilization,  but  before  the  formation  of 
  the  embryo. 
  b  The  primary  growth  from  the  spore  in  certain  cryptogamous 
  plants;  as  the  proembryo,  or  protonema,  of  mosses.