plumule
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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 Goodrich, Charles Landon
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 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
Cotyledons very thick and fleshy, their contiguous faces coherent, remaining under ground in germination; plumule 2-leaved; radicle curved.—Trees or shrubs.
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
The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; Ð so called from its spiral form.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
