radicle
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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
Seeds anatropous, mostly single in each cell, large and flat, with a smooth coriaceous integument; the embryo shorter than the hard albumen, with a long radicle and flat cotyledons.
From Project Gutenberg
At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle.
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The radicles did not present the appearance of having been subjected to a sufficient pressure to account for their curvature.
From Project Gutenberg
It is possible that they may further obtain access into the circulation through the radicles which furnish the communications between the capillaries and the lymphatics.
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