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CHALAZA
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Irregular inflected form: chalazae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of two spiral bands of tissue connecting the egg yolk to the enclosing membrane at either end of the shell
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("chalaza" is a kind of...):
animal tissue (the tissue in the bodies of animals)
Holonyms ("chalaza" is a part of...):
egg (animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Basal part of a plant ovule opposite the micropyle; where integument and nucellus are joined
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("chalaza" is a kind of...):
plant part; plant structure (any part of a plant or fungus)
Holonyms ("chalaza" is a part of...):
ovule (a small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilization)
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