plumule
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So it is the stem-portion of the plumule which is at first conspicuous and strong-growing.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
It is important that the leaves on the primary axis arising from the plumule are examined.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association
In germination the first leaf of the plumule develops only as a sort of sheath, protecting the tender parts within; the second and the third form the first foliage.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
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
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 Asa Gray
