Associations to the word «Testa»

Wiktionary

TESTA, noun. (botany) A seed coat.
TESTA, noun. (marine biology) The external calciferous shell, or endoskeleton, of an echinoderm; the test.

Dictionary definition

TESTA, noun. Protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne