Word Meanings - TERCINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac. Cf. Quintine.

Related words: (words related to TERCINE)

• EMBRYO SAC
  See EMBRYONIC
• EMBRYOTOMY
  The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.
• DERIVE
  To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. Shak. Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. Prior.
• EMBRYON
  See EMBRYO
• EMBRYOGRAPHY
  The general description of embryos.
• LAYERING
  A propagating by layers. Gardner.
• NUCLEUS
  The body or the head of a comet. An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue. A whole seed, as contained within the seed coats. (more info) 1. A kernel; hence, a central mass or point about which matter is gathered, or to which accretion is made;
• EMBRYOTROPH
  The material from which an embryo is formed and nourished.
• EMBRYOPLASTIC
  Relating to, or aiding in, the formation of an embryo; as, embryoplastic cells.
• EMBRYONATE; EMBRYONATED
  In the state of, or having, an embryonal.
• EMBRYOLOGIST
  One skilled in embryology.
• EMBRYONIC
  Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary. Embryonic sac or vesicle , the vesicle within which the embryo is developed in the ovule; -- sometimes called also amnios sac, and embryonal sac.
• SURROUNDING
  Inclosing; encircling.
• EMBRYONARY
  Embryonic.
• DERIVATIONAL
  Relating to derivation. Earle.
• DERIVATIVE
  Obtained by derivation; derived; not radical, original, or fundamental; originating, deduced, or formed from something else; secondary; as, a derivative conveyance; a derivative word. Derivative circulation, a modification of the circulation found
• EMBRYOTIC
  Embryonic.
• DERIVATION
  The operation of deducing one function from another according to some fixed law, called the law of derivation, as the of differentiation or of integration. (more info) 1. A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source. T. Burnet. 2.
• EMBRYOLOGY
  The science which relates to the formation and development of the embryo in animals and plants; a study of the gradual development of the ovum until it reaches the adult stage.
• EMBRYOGONY
  The formation of an embryo.
• WAYLAYER
  One who waylays another.
• PROEMBRYO
  The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo. The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.
• INTERCELLULAR
  Lying between cells or cellules; as, intercellular substance, space, or fluids; intercellular blood channels.
• TRACKLAYER
  Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
• UNICELLULAR
  Having, or consisting of, but a single cell; as, a unicellular organism.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• MONEMBRYONY
  The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo. -- Mon*em`bry*on"ic, a.
• INEMBRYONATE
  Not embryonate.
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
• PSEUDEMBRYO
  A false embryo. An asexual form from which the true embryo is produced by budding.
• PRONUCLEUS
  One of the two bodies or nuclei (called male and female pronuclei) which unite to form the first segmentation nucleus of an impregnated ovum. Note: In the maturing of the ovum preparatory to impregnation, a part of the germinal vesicle becomes