perisperm

1. 1.

   the nutritive tissue outside the sac containing the embryo in some seeds

   Broaderplant tissue

Other forms of perisperm

plural

perisperms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about perisperm

What does perisperm mean?

perisperm means "the nutritive tissue outside the sac containing the embryo in some seeds".

How many syllables are in perisperm?

perisperm has 3 syllables: pe-ri-sperm. The stress falls on "pe".

Is perisperm a common word?

perisperm is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.