hypogean

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Long glass tubes, open at both ends, are useful in many other ways, especially in the rearing and study of the smaller hypogean insects or those which bore and live in the stems of plants.

From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.

A glass filament with a bead at its end was affixed to the basal half or leg, just above the hypogean cotyledons, which were again almost surrounded by loose earth.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

When the cotyledons are hypogean, that is, remain buried in the soil, the hypocotyl is hardly developed, and the epicotyl or plumule rises in like manner as an arch through the ground.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

With Cycas pectinata the cotyledons are hypogean, and a true leaf first breaks through the ground with its petiole forming an arch.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

In consequence of this injury it had emitted near the hypogean cotyledons two secondary shoots, and it was remarkable that both of these were arched, like the normal epicotyl in ordinary cases.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles