plumule

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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

Instead of this, they nourish into rapid growth the plumule, which is plainly visible in the seed, as a pair of incipient leaves; and these form the first actual foliage.

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

Beginning germination of the Beech, showing the plumule growing before the cotyledons have opened or the root has scarcely formed.

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

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

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