plumule

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

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

Same in advanced germination: the plumule has developed four or five internodes, bearing single leaves; but the first and second leaves are mere scales, the third begins to serve as foliage; the next more so.

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

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 Hillis, Newell Dwight

The sheath which envelopes the radicle is called coleorhiza and that of the plumule, pileole or germ-sheath.

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

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