double fertilization
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double fertilization
the situation in flowering plants where a male nucleus combines with the egg nucleus and another male nucleus combines with the primary endosperm to form an endosperm nucleus. See EMBRYO SAC.Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005