/ˈtɛstə/
OriginBorrowed from Latin testa.
- A seed coat.
“The testa develops from the tissue, the integument, originally surrounding the ovule.”
“The seeds are furnished with a reticulated testa, very much in appearance like that of the seeds of two closely-allied pericarps in the cabinet of my friend Mr. Ward, of Wellclose-square, the names of”
“1969, C. W. Bennett, Seed Transmission of Plant Viruses, Alison Smith, Advances in Virus Research, Volume 14, page 224,
In tests with the Lincoln and Virginia varieties of cowpea, Crowley (1959) found”
- The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm; the test.
Formstestas(plural) · testae(plural) · testæ(plural) · Testas(plural)