plumule
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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 Asa Gray
Embryo thick and fleshy, "with a large concealed cavity at the summit, the plumule curved in a groove on the outside."
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Germinating Onion, more advanced, the chink at base of cotyledon opening for the protrusion of the plumule, consisting of a thread-shaped leaf.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
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 Asa Gray
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
