plumule

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So it is the stem-portion of the plumule which is at first conspicuous and strong-growing.

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

In germination the first leaf of the plumule develops only as a sort of sheath, protecting the tender parts within; the second and the third form the first foliage.

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

Same opened out, to show the thick cotyledons and the little plumule or bud between them.

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

Finally the plumule escapes, its leaves successively breaking through at the tip of the germ-sheath.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various