plumule

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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

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

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

The germ-sheath grows vertically upwards, its stiff apex pushing through the soil, while the plumule is hidden in its hollow interior.

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

Plume′let, a down-feather, a plumule: anything resembling a small plume.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various