plumule
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Same, older, with plumule developed into internode and pair of leaves.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
Within the cotyledons the primordial leaves are seen, constituting the plumule or first bud of the plant.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
The part bearing the tiny leaves was formerly, and is sometimes now, called the plumule, but is generally called the epicotyl, because it grows above or upon the cotyledons.
From The First Book of Farming by Charles Landon Goodrich
Grain of Indian Corn in germination, the ascending sprout is the first leaf of the plumule, enclosing the younger leaves within, at its base the primary root has broken through.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
When the seed first thrust its rootlets down into the soil and its plumule up to the sunshine it entered upon a long career.
From The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Newell Dwight Hillis
