plumule

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It is important that the leaves on the primary axis arising from the plumule are examined.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association

Seedling of same, showing the freshly expanded six cotyledons in a whorl, and the plumule just appearing.

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

No plumule or bud appears in the embryo of these two Maples until the seed-leaves have nearly attained their full growth and are acting as foliage-leaves, and until a root is formed below.

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

The axis, which is differentiated into the plumule directed upward and the radicle downward, is small and straight and it is covered more or less by the edges of the scutellum.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

The larger part of it is the cotyledon, thickish, its edges involute, and its back in contact with the albumen; partly enclosed by it is the well-developed plumule or bud which is to grow.

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