Testa Rotta
Testa may refer to: * Testa (botany), a term to describe the seed coat * Testa (surname) * Testa, Zanskar, a village in Ladakh, India * Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, a former Boston law firm * 11667 Testa, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1997 * Opus testaceum, Testa (ceramics), fired clay material, especially crushed brick used in mortar * Trans European Services for Telematics between Administrations * Trebatius Testa (fl. 1st century BC), jurist of ancient Rome * Tesch & Stabenow, a German chemical company notable for its role in the Holocaust See also

* Head (other), testa being the Italian word for head * Testarossa (other) {{disambiguation ...
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Testa (botany)
In botany, a seed is a plant structure containing an embryo and stored nutrients in a protective coat called a ''testa''. More generally, the term "seed" means anything that can be sown, which may include seed and husk or tuber. Seeds are the product of the ripened ovule, after the embryo sac is fertilized by sperm from pollen, forming a zygote. The embryo within a seed develops from the zygote and grows within the mother plant to a certain size before growth is halted. The formation of the seed is the defining part of the process of reproduction in seed plants (spermatophytes). Other plants such as ferns, mosses and liverworts, do not have seeds and use water-dependent means to propagate themselves. Seed plants now dominate biological niches on land, from forests to grasslands both in hot and cold climates. In the flowering plants, the ovary ripens into a fruit which contains the seed and serves to disseminate it. Many structures commonly referred to as "seeds" are actuall ...
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