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

Moreover, Darwin – who studied plants meticulously for most of his life, observed that the radicle – the root tip – “acts like the brain of one of the lower animals.”

From The Guardian • Aug. 4, 2015

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

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

The compounds of ammonium possess many properties in common, and this is partly explained if we assume that they all contain one or more atoms of the compound radicle ammonium.

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