DOUBLE FERTILIZATION


Meaning of DOUBLE FERTILIZATION in English

the fertilization process characteristic of flowering plants, in which one sperm cell of a pollen grain fertilizes an egg cell while a second fuses with two polar nuclei to produce a triploid body that gives rise to the endosperm.

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Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .