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
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
Mancuso has found rising evidence that the key to plant intelligence is in the radicle or root apex.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 4, 2015
The zygote develops into an embryo with a radicle, or small root, and one or two leaf-like organs called cotyledons.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
Cotyledons fleshy and oily, sinuous or corrugated, 2-lobed; radicle short, superior.
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
