plumule

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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.

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

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

The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; Ð so called from its spiral form.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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