radicle

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Radicle hardly any; cotyledons thick and fleshy, enclosing a well-developed plumule.—Flowers axillary, solitary.

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

Radicle or Radicula: that joint of the antenna that is articulated to the head.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Zea mays: Sensitiveness of the apex of the Radicle to contact.—A large number of trials were made on this plant, as it was the only monocotyledon on which we experimented.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

See what a show it gives them, what bloody Radicle knows or keeres what the perceedin's should be?

From Romance by Conrad, Joseph

Radicle 11 mm. in length, card fixed behind: after 9 h. deflected in the plane of the bean 40o from the perpendicular and from the card, and in opposition to Sachs' curvature.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles