seed coat

How to use seed coat in a sentence

• The seed itself, which is contained within the testa or seed-coat, consists essentially of the young plant or embryo.

  An Elementary Text-book of the Microscope | John William Griffith

• Seed large; the apex or radicular extremity of the seed-coat separable as an operculum or lid (as in Cabomba, etc.).

  The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States | Asa Gray

• There is a small deposit of nourishment between the seed-coat and the embryo: this may for the present be left out of the account.

  The Elements of Botany | Asa Gray

• The end which almost touches the seed coat is caulicle, the other end belongs to the solitary cotyledon.

  The Elements of Botany | Asa Gray

• During maturation the accumulation of carbon dioxide is due to the seed-coat becoming impermeable to it.

  The Annual Register 1914 | Anonymous