apical placentation

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   where one or few ovules develop at the top of a simple or compound ovary

   Broaderplacentation

Questions about apical placentation

What does apical placentation mean?

apical placentation means "where one or few ovules develop at the top of a simple or compound ovary".

Is apical placentation a common word?

apical placentation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.