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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEED COAT

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Seed coat is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SEED COAT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

seed coat

Seed

A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering called the seed coat, usually with some stored food. It is a characteristic of spermatophytes and the product of the ripened ovule which occurs after fertilization and some growth within the mother plant. The formation of the seed completes the process of reproduction in seed plants, with the embryo developed from the zygote and the seed coat from the integuments of the ovule. Seeds have been an important development in the reproduction and spread of gymnosperm and angiosperm plants, relative to more primitive plants such as ferns, mosses and liverworts, which do not have seeds and use other means to propagate themselves. This can be seen by the success of seed plants in dominating biological niches on land, from forests to grasslands both in hot and cold climates. The term "seed" also has a general meaning that antedates the above—anything that can be sown, e.g. "seed" potatoes, "seeds" of corn or sunflower "seeds". In the case of sunflower and corn "seeds", what is sown is the seed enclosed in a shell or husk, whereas the potato is a tuber.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEED COAT

seed
seed box
seed capital
seed capsule
seed coral
seed corn
seed fern
seed leaf
seed merchant
seed money
seed oyster
seed pearl
seed plant
seed pod
seed potato
seed tray
seed vessel
seed-corn
seedbed
seedbox

WORDS THAT END LIKE SEED COAT

base coat
box coat
car coat
coat
dress coat
duffel coat
duffle coat
dust coat
duster coat
frock coat
fur coat
lab coat
mink coat
morning coat
on the coat
sport coat
sports coat
tail coat
trail one´s coat
trench coat
white coat

Synonyms and antonyms of seed coat in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «seed coat» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEED COAT

Find out the translation of seed coat to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of seed coat from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «seed coat» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

种皮
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cubierta de la semilla
570 millions of speakers

English

seed coat
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बीज कोट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

معطف البذور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кожура
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tegumento da semente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বীজত্বক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tégument
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kot benih
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Samenschale
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

種皮
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

종피
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jas wiji
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vỏ hạt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விதை உறை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बियाणे डगला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tohum kabuğu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tegumento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

płaszcz nasion
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

шкірка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

învelișul seminței
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

περίβλημα του σπόρου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

saadhuid
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

fröskal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

frøhylsteret
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about seed coat

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEED COAT»

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The inheritance of seed coat color in garden beans
THE INHERITANCE OF SEED COAT COLOR IN GARDEN BEANS. BY J. K. SHAW AND JOHN B. NORTON. INTRODUCTION. ' Investigation of inheritance in garden beans at this station was begun in 1907 by Mr. C. S. Pomeroy, then assistant ...
Jacob Kingsley Shaw, John B. Norton, 1918
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Principles of Seed Science and Technology
From a physical perspective, it may be that the mere process of imbibition replaces pore spaces in the seed coat with water that hinders the ready movement of gases to the embryo. Many cruciferous seeds also have epidermal cells in the ...
Lawrence O. Copeland, 1995
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Flower Seeds: Biology and Technology
Seed coat The seed coat develops primarily from the integumental tissue; however, chalazal, raphal and nucellar tissues may also contribute to the seed coat (Werker, 1997). All these tissues are of maternal origin. The seed coat can consist of ...
M. B. McDonald, Francis Y. Kwong, 2005
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Seed Development and Germination
the chalaza or somewhere from the raphe in the direction of the micropyle, and they form different patterns of parallel, branching, anastomozing, or reticulate bundles, which may be visible in the seed coat. The tegmen is vascularized only in ...
Jaime Kigel, 1995
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Brassicas and Legumes From Genome Structure to Breeding: ...
The seed coat color in Brassica campestris has been variously shown to be controlled by one gene (Ahmed and Zuberi 1971; Chen and Heneen 1992; Teutonico and Osborn 1994), two (Stringam 1980), three (Mohammed et al. 1942 ; Jonsson ...
Toshiyuki Nagata, Satoshi Tabata, 2003
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Histopathology of Seed-Borne Infections
Host Seed and Fruit Part(s) Hyphomycetes (continued) Helianthus annuus Pericarp, seed coat Carthamus tinctorius Lupinus lutens Medicago sativa Carthamus tinctorius Pericarp, seed coat Seed coat only or seed coat, tracheid bar, funicular ...
Dalbir Singh, S. B. Mathur, 2004
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Common Beans: Research for Crop Improvement
While an impermeable seed coat is a valuable survival mechanism to the plant under adverse environmental conditions, cultivars that develop this condition during the post-harvest period often contain a high percentage of hard seeds that  ...
Aart van Schoonhoven, O. Voysest, 1991
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Anatomical structure of the cottonseed coat as related to ...
1 Review of literature 2 Structure of the seed coat 2 Anatomy of the micropyle region 2 Anatomy of the chalazal region 5 Effect of acid delinting on the seed coat 9 Role of the seed coat in germination . 11 Course and rate of water absorption ...
Dwight McBryde Simpson, Caroline L. Adams, Gilbert Matthew Stone, 1940
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Desiccation and Survival in Plants: Drying Without Dying
A cause-effect relationship between seed-coat pigmentation and imbibition stress has been confirmed by comparing the imbibitional damage in five pairs of isogenic lines in pea, differing only in the A gene for seed colour (Powell, 1989).
Michael Black, H. W. Pritchard, 2002
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Seed Ecophysiology of Temperate and Boreal Zone Forest Trees
Physical dormancy — Dormancy imposed by conditions of the seed coat which prevent entrance of water and/ or oxygen to the embryo or which physically restrict growth of the embryo. Physiological dormancy — Dormancy which has its basis ...
Robert E. Farmer, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEED COAT»

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Grain farmers are making a last-ditch effort to block new regulations that would restrict their use of a pesticide seed coating that's been linked to Ontario bee ... «London Free Press, Jun 15»
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Researchers identify gene that controls soybean seed permeability …
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University researchers have pinpointed the gene that controls whether soybean seed coats are hard or permeable, a finding ... «Purdue Newsroom, Jun 15»
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How to start seeds and transplant them into larger containers
There are seeds of certain plants which must be exposed to cold, then warmth before they will germinate. Some seed coats are very hard and the seeds will ... «Boston.com, Jun 15»
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Seeds of success
To extract the seed dry, shake and sieve, then pour boiling water over and soak overnight, or you can sandpaper the edge of the seed coat, being careful not to ... «The West Australian, May 15»
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Thor Hanson's 'The Triumph of Seeds': new life, tiny package
In “The Triumph of Seeds,” San Juan Island conservation biologist Thor Hanson ... And seeds have three parts: the embryo, seed coat and some kind of nutritive ... «The Seattle Times, Apr 15»
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Seed Packets and Sweet Peas
How to read flower, herb and vegetable seed packets. .... speeding up germination by making a small nick in the seed coat with a knife, metal file, or sandpaper. «Prescott eNews, Mar 15»
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Seed coating materials killing the honey bees?
The seed coating materials market is one aspect of the genetically modified solution and is estimated to be worth $994 million in 2014 and is set to reach $1427 ... «Companiesandmarkets.com, Oct 14»
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Why we should revive the art of saving seeds
Tomatoes to French or runner beans, there's no need to buy seeds. ... The purpose of the fermentation is to break down the gel that surrounds the seed coat of ... «The Guardian, Sep 14»
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Growing trees from seed is blooming fun
When we talk about growing plants from seed, most immediately think of growing annuals ... In this case, the seed coat can be broken with the use of a file (use a ... «The Courier-Journal, Sep 14»
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Extreme Science With Radical Rick: Germinating Seeds With Orbies
All fully developed seeds contain an embryo and, in most plant species some store of food reserves, wrapped in a seed coat. Some plants produce varying ... «KHQ Right Now, Jun 14»

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