radicle

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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

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

But instead of having just one root, most plants have millions of individual roots, each with a single radicle.

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

Cotyledons elliptical; radicle slender.—Light timber-trees, with petioled pinnate leaves of 3–15 either toothed or entire leaflets; the small flowers in crowded panicles or racemes from the axils of last year's leaves.

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