plumule

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The axis, which is differentiated into the plumule directed upward and the radicle downward, is small and straight and it is covered more or less by the edges of the scutellum.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Indeed, the earliest growth which carries the very short caulicle out of the shell comes from the formation of foot-stalks to the cotyledons; above these develops the strong plumule, below grows the stout root.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Embryo thick and fleshy, "with a large concealed cavity at the summit, the plumule curved in a groove on the outside."

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Same, older, with plumule developed into internode and pair of leaves.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Finally the plumule escapes, its leaves successively breaking through at the tip of the germ-sheath.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various