radicle

Example Sentences

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When the plant embryo emerges from the seed, the radicle of the embryo forms the root system.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Mancuso has found rising evidence that the key to plant intelligence is in the radicle or root apex.

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2015

Moreover, Darwin – who studied plants meticulously for most of his life, observed that the radicle – the root tip – “acts like the brain of one of the lower animals.”

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2015

The root system is usually anchored by one main root developed from the embryonic radicle.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

Seed erect; radicle inferior.—Low perennial herbs, with chiefly radical 3–5-lobed or divided leaves, and small yellow flowers on bracted scapes.

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