radicle

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When the plant embryo emerges from the seed, the radicle of the embryo forms the root system.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

But instead of having just one root, most plants have millions of individual roots, each with a single radicle.

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2015

Mancuso has found rising evidence that the key to plant intelligence is in the radicle or root apex.

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2015

The zygote develops into an embryo with a radicle, or small root, and one or two leaf-like organs called cotyledons.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013

Benzoic acid they regarded as a compound of the same radicle with another radicle, consisting of equal numbers of oxygen and hydrogen atoms.

From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)