aleurone

Pronunciation key ( ə-l′rōn )

a•leu•rone

n.

[Gr. aleuron wheat meal, flour].

In botany and biochemistry, fine granules of proteinaceous and fatty material, occuring in the outermost cell layer of the endosperm of wheat and other grain seeds and forms an outer layer in cereals.

References

Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language (College Edition) ©1955

Biology of Plants, Fourth Edition, Worth Publishers Inc., Stanford University, Peter H. Raven and Helena Curtis, ©1971