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The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo.

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  1. n. The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo.
  2. n. The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.
  3. (a) The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo. (b) The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.
  4. n. The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo. n. The primary growth from the spore in certain cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.