chalaza

chalaza has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. The place on an ovule, or seed, where its outer coats cohere with each other and the nucleus.
• n.. A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle.
• n.. one of two spiral bands of tissue connecting the egg yolk to the enclosing membrane at either end of the shell
• n.. basal part of a plant ovule opposite the micropyle; where integument and nucellus are joined