Cotyledon vs. Endosperm

Cotyledonnoun

(physiology) Each of the patches of vili on the foetal chorion in the placenta of ruminants and some other mammals.

Cotyledonnoun

(botany) The leaf of the embryo of a seed-bearing plant; after germination it becomes the first leaves of the seedling.

Cotyledonnoun

One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.

Cotyledonnoun

A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf.

Cotyledonnoun

embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants

Cotyledon

A cotyledon (; from Latin cotyledon, from Greek: κοτυληδών kotylēdōn, gen.: κοτυληδόνος kotylēdonos, from κοτύλη kotýlē ) is a significant part of the embryo within the seed of a plant, and is defined as The number of cotyledons present is one characteristic used by botanists to classify the flowering plants (angiosperms). Species with one cotyledon are called monocotyledonous ().

Endospermnoun

(biology) tissue surrounding the embryo of flowering plant seeds, that provides nutrition to the developing embryo; usually triploid

Endospermnoun

The albumen of a seed; - limited by recent writers to that formed within the embryo sac.

Endospermnoun

nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants

Endosperm

The endosperm is a tissue produced inside the seeds of most of the flowering plants following double fertilization. It is triploid (meaning three chromosome sets per nucleus) in most species, which may be auxin-driven.