plumule
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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
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
Similar section through a seed turned edgewise, showing the thickness of the cotyledons, and the minute plumule between them, i. e. the minute bud on the upper end of the caulicle.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
Embryo thick and fleshy, "with a large concealed cavity at the summit, the plumule curved in a groove on the outside."
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
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
