embryo sac

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noun Botany.

the megaspore of a seed-bearing plant, situated within the ovule, giving rise to the endosperm and forming the egg cell or nucleus from which the embryo plant develops after fertilization.

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Origin of embryo sac

First recorded in 1870–75

Words nearby embryo sac

embryonization, embryonoid, embryony, embryopathy, embryoplastic, embryo sac, embryotomy, embryotoxic, embryotoxicity, embryotoxon, embryo transfer

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How to use embryo sac in a sentence

Surrounded by inert goods, we felt hemmed in, pushed toward a lifestyle cul-de-sac.
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Three years later Sophia goes back to the clinic, where they repeat the IVF process and transfer a single normal female embryo.
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Almost all 35 to 39-year-old women—92 percent—had at least one normal embryo to transfer after a single IVF cycle.
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It is this uncertainty that drives many religious objectors: they protest if there is any chance an embryo could be harmed.
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The intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance role was in the embryo stage.
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The embryo can be located by the commotion which its active motion produces among the corpuscles.
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They are asymmetrically oval, about 50 in length, and often contain a partially developed embryo.
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And, lastly, that at the apex of the nucleus the radicle of the future Embryo would constantly be found.
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On these grounds my opinion respecting the Embryo of Cephalotus was formed.
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In such cases the external umbilicus alone affords a certain indication of the position of the future embryo.
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British Dictionary definitions for embryo sac

embryo sac

noun

the structure within a plant ovule that contains the egg cell: develops from the megaspore and contains the embryo plant and endosperm after fertilization

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Scientific definitions for embryo sac

embryo sac

An oval structure within an ovule of an angiosperm that contains the egg. Together with the fertilized egg, it develops into a seed. The embryo sac is the female gametophyte of angiosperms, consisting of eight nuclei: the egg and two adjacent and short-lived synergids that are near the micropyle (the opening where the pollen nuclei will enter), two central nuclei (which will combine with one of the pollen nuclei to form the endosperm), and three antipodal nuclei at the end of the embryo sac opposite the micropyle. Like the synergids, these nuclei degenerate at or shortly after fertilization. See more at gametophyte pollination.