Usually means: Tissue inside ovules, nourishes embryo.
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  1. nucellus: Merriam-Webster
  2. nucellus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nucellus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nucellus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nucellus: Vocabulary.com
  6. nucellus: Wordnik
  7. nucellus: Wiktionary
  8. nucellus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. nucellus: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. nucellus: Dictionary.com
  11. Nucellus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Nucellus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. nucellus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. nucellus: Rhymezone
  15. Nucellus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. nucellus: FreeDictionary.org
  17. nucellus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. nucellus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

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noun:  (botany) The tissue which surrounds and protects the embryo and lies inside of the integuments.

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