Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CHA-LAZ'A
CHA-LAZ'A, n.
In botany, a small brown spot upon the testa of a seed, formed by the union of certain vessels proceeding from the hilum; a part of a seed, springing from an expansion of the raphe, where it communicates with the base of the nucleus. – Lindley.
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