plumule

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Similar section through a seed turned edgewise, showing the thickness of the cotyledons, and the minute plumule between them, i. e. the minute bud on the upper end of the caulicle.

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

It is important that the leaves on the primary axis arising from the plumule are examined.

From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association

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

The larger part of it is the cotyledon, thickish, its edges involute, and its back in contact with the albumen; partly enclosed by it is the well-developed plumule or bud which is to grow.

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

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