plumule
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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 Newell Dwight Hillis
Embryo like that of Nymphæa on a large scale; cotyledons thick and fleshy, enclosing a plumule of 1 or 2 well-formed young leaves, enclosed in a delicate stipule-like sheath.
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
The germ-sheath grows vertically upwards, its stiff apex pushing through the soil, while the plumule is hidden in its hollow interior.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
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
A grain cut through the middle in the opposite direction, dividing the embryo through its thick cotyledon and its plumule, the latter consisting of two leaves, one enclosing the other.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
