plumule

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The sheath which envelopes the radicle is called coleorhiza and that of the plumule, pileole or germ-sheath.

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

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.

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

For example, the single plumule which develops from a germinating wheat embryo has at its upper end a hundred or more tiny growing points.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred

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