a. Bot. [f. as prec. + -OUS.] Having no albumen in the seed.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 226. They [Lentibulariæ] are known from Primulaceæ by their exalbuminous embryo.
1880. Gray, Struct. Bot., ii. 14. Seeds are distinguished into albuminous and exalbuminous, those supplied with and those destitute of albumen.