plumule

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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

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

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

Same in advanced germination: the plumule has developed four or five internodes, bearing single leaves; but the first and second leaves are mere scales, the third begins to serve as foliage; the next more so.

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