Definition of Choreon
||Cho"ri*on (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
&?;.]
1. (Anat.) (a) The
outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the
similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of
development. (b) The true skin, or
cutis.
2. (Bot.) The outer membrane of
seeds of plants.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- The protective and nutritive membrane that attaches higher vertebrate fetuses to the uterus.
- The outer case of an insect egg.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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