plumule

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It would appear therefore that the cotyledon answers to a minute leaf rolled up, and that a chink through which the plumule grows out is a part of the inrolled edges.

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

A grain cut through the middle in the opposite direction, dividing the embryo through its thick cotyledon and its plumule, the latter consisting of two leaves, one enclosing the other.

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

Indeed, the earliest growth which carries the very short caulicle out of the shell comes from the formation of foot-stalks to the cotyledons; above these develops the strong plumule, below grows the stout root.

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

When the seed first thrust its rootlets down into the soil and its plumule up to the sunshine it entered upon a long career.

From The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Hillis, Newell Dwight

Germinating Onion, more advanced, the chink at base of cotyledon opening for the protrusion of the plumule, consisting of a thread-shaped leaf.

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