plumule

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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

Cotyledons opened to show the radicle a, and the plumule.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

Same opened out, to show the thick cotyledons and the little plumule or bud between them.

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

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.

Cotyledons very thick and fleshy, their contiguous faces coherent, remaining under ground in germination; plumule 2-leaved; radicle curved.—Trees or shrubs.

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