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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
perisperm/ˈpɛrɪspəːm/

▶noun Botany (in some seeds) a mass of nutritive material outside the embryo sac.

– origin C19: from peri- + Gk sperma ‘seed’.

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