plumule

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For example, the single plumule which develops from a germinating wheat embryo has at its upper end a hundred or more tiny growing points.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred

The larger part of it is the cotyledon, thickish, its edges involute, and its back in contact with the albumen; partly enclosed by it is the well-developed plumule or bud which is to grow.

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

Plume′let, a down-feather, a plumule: anything resembling a small plume.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

No plumule or bud appears in the embryo of these two Maples until the seed-leaves have nearly attained their full growth and are acting as foliage-leaves, and until a root is formed below.

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

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 Gray, Asa