seed vessel

Questions about seed vessel

What does seed vessel mean?

seed vessel means "the ripened and variously modified walls of a plant ovary".

What is another word for seed vessel?

Close synonyms include pericarp. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is seed vessel a common word?

seed vessel 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.