Endosperm

Definition: Endosperm

Endosperm

Noun

1. Nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants.

Etymology: Endosperm \En"do*sperm\, noun. [Endo- Greek expression seed.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Biology & Biotechnology	A nutritive tissue which in the seeds of many Angiospermae often provides food for the embryo during germination and early development. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym by domain: floury (food & agriculture).

Crosswords: Endosperm

English words defined with "endosperm": aleurone ♦ Endospermic ♦ flint corn, flint maize ♦ Seminose ♦ Yankee corn ♦ Zea mays indurata. (references)

"Endosperm" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Endosperm" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	3	202,518

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "endosperm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		endospermë. (various references)

Bulgarian		ендосперма. (various references)

Danish		endosperm (floury kernel), planteaeggehvide (albumen), melkaerne (floury kernel), froehvide (floury kernel), albumen (albumen). (various references)

Dutch		endosperm (floury kernel), zaadeiwit (albumen), meellichaam (floury kernel), kiemwit (albumen), kiemeiwit, albumen (albumen). (various references)

Finnish		endospermi (albumen, floury kernel), siemenvalkuainen (albumen, floury kernel), munanvalkuainen (albumen, white). (various references)

French		endosperme. (various references)

German		Endosperm (floury kernel), Sameneiweiß (albumen), Nährgewebe (albumen), Mehlkoerper (floury kernel), Albumen (albumen). (various references)

Greek		ενδόσπερμον, ενδοσπέρμιο (floury kernel), λευκωματίνη (albumen, albumin). (various references)

Hungarian		endospermium. (various references)

Italian		endosperma (floury kernel), mandorla farinosa (floury kernel), albume (albumen, glair). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		胚乳 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		はいにゅう. (various references)

Pig Latin		endospermay

Portuguese		endosperma (endotracheal probe), endospérmio (floury kernel), cirurgia endoscópica (endoscopic surgery), albume (albumen), albúmen (albumen), abúmen. (various references)

Russian		эндосперм. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		endosperma. (various references)

Spanish		endosperma. (various references)

Swedish		frövita (floury kernel). (various references)

Turkish		besidoku. (various references)

Ukranian		ендосперма. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	endospermium. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "endosperm": endosperms. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Endosperm" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Endospermum. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "endosperm" (pronounced 'En"do*sperm'): Angiosperm, Chrysosperm, Episperm, gymnosperm, Melanosperm, Mesosperm, Monosperm, Oosperm, Perisperm, Podosperm, Psorosperm, Rhodosperm, Trophosperm, Zoosperm, Zygosperm. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-m-n-o-p-r-s"
	-1 letter: modernes.
	-2 letters: deperms, depones, deposer, emerods, endorse, menders, moderne, moderns, moreens, openers, ponders, premeds, remends, reopens, reposed, respond, rodsmen, spender, spondee.
	-3 letters: demons, denser, deperm, depone, depose, donees, dopers, drones, emends, emerod, enders, epodes, erodes, mender, mensed, merdes, modern, mondes, mopeds, mopers, moreen, normed, omened, opened, opener, pedros, peones, pereon, permed, person, ponder, preens, premed, premen, proems, prosed, redoes, redone, redons, remend, reopen, repose, resend, rodmen, romped, sempre, sender, sermon, snored, sonder, sorned, speedo, spored.
	-4 letters: deems, deeps, deers, demes, demon, demos, denes, dense, derms, doers, domes, donee, doper, dopes, dorms, dorps, doser, drees, drone, drops, emend, ender, enorm, epode, ernes, erode, erose, meeds, mends, mense, merde, meres, mesne, meson, modes, monde, moped, moper, mopes, mores, morns, morse, needs, neems, neeps, nerds, nodes, nomes, norms, nosed, omens, omers, opens, pedes, pedro, peens, peers, pends, penes, peons, perms, perse, poems, pomes, ponds, pones, pored, pores, porns, posed, poser, preed, preen, prees, prese, prods, proem, proms, prone, prose, redes, redon, redos, reeds, rends, repos, resod, romps, roped, ropes, rosed, seder, semen, senor, sered, sneer, snore, sonde, speed, speer, spend, sperm, spode, spore, spree.
	-5 letters: deem, deep, deer, dees, deme, demo, dene, dens, dere, derm, doer, does, dome, doms, done, dons, dope, dore, dorm, dorp, dors, dose, dree, drop, emes, ends, eons, epos, erne, erns, eros, meed, mend, meno, mere, mode, mods, mons, mope, mops, more, morn, mors, need, neem, neep, nerd, node, nods, noes, nome, noms, nope, norm, nose, odes, omen, omer, ones, oped, open, opes, ores, peds, peed, peen, peer, pees, pend, pens, peon, perm, peso, pods, poem, pome, poms, pond, pone, pons, pore, porn, pose, pree, prod, prom, pros, rede, redo, reds, reed, rees, rems, rend, repo, reps, rode, rods, roes, romp, roms, rope, rose, seed, seem, seen, seep, seer, seme, send, sene, sere, sned, some, sone, sord, sore, sorn, sped.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-e-m-n-o-p-r-s"
	+1 letter: endosperms, promenades.
	+2 letters: comprehends, deportments, premonished, promenaders, recompensed, redemptions, supermodern.
	+3 letters: endomorphies, impersonated, monodisperse, predominates, premoistened.
	+4 letters: decompressing, decompression, imponderables, improvidences, predominances, redemptioners, redeployments.
	+5 letters: decompressions, hypermodernist, impersonalized, predominancies, premeditations, preordainments, redevelopments.
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