Polyembryo

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A single seed that contains multiple embryos.

    "But sour and swee oranges have a number of characters in common -- small-panicled inflorescences, tight peel, whitish polyembryo, etc."

  2. 2
    One of a set of genetically identical embryos that develop from a single fertilized egg.

    "Mitochondria, like the phospholipids, have been investigated when the polyembryo of Ageniaspis had the form of a tube (string)."

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"But sour and swee oranges have a number of characters in common -- small-panicled inflorescences, tight peel, whitish polyembryo, etc."

Etymology

From poly- + embryo.

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