plumule

Example Sentences

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Oft as morning wreathes my scarf, Fled the last plumule of the Dark, Pants up hither the spruce clerk From South Cove and City Wharf.

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Embryo with a single cotyledon, and the leaves of the plumule alternate.

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

For example, the single plumule which develops from a germinating wheat embryo has at its upper end a hundred or more tiny growing points.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred

Beginning germination of the Beech, showing the plumule growing before the cotyledons have opened or the root has scarcely formed.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

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 Gray, Asa