plumule
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Germinating Onion, more advanced, the chink at base of cotyledon opening for the protrusion of the plumule, consisting of a thread-shaped leaf.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
The part bearing the tiny leaves was formerly, and is sometimes now, called the plumule, but is generally called the epicotyl, because it grows above or upon the cotyledons.
From The First Book of Farming by Charles Landon Goodrich
Finally the plumule escapes, its leaves successively breaking through at the tip of the germ-sheath.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
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 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
