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 K. Rangachari
Embryo with a single cotyledon, and the leaves of the plumule alternate.
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 Asa Gray
Seedling of same, showing the freshly expanded six cotyledons in a whorl, and the plumule just appearing.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
A grain cut through the middle in the opposite direction, dividing the embryo through its thick cotyledon and its plumule, the latter consisting of two leaves, one enclosing the other.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
When the seed first thrust its rootlets down into the soil and its plumule up to the sunshine it entered upon a long career.
From The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Newell Dwight Hillis
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