plumule
Americannoun
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Botany. the bud of the ascending axis of a plant while still in the embryo.
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Ornithology. a down feather.
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the embryonic shoot of seed-bearing plants
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a down feather of young birds that persists in some adults
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The young shoot of a plant embryo, situated above the cotyledons and consisting of the epicotyl and often of immature leaves.
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See more at germination
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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
For example, the single plumule which develops from a germinating wheat embryo has at its upper end a hundred or more tiny growing points.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
Em�bry-o, the little plant forming a part of the seed, usually consisting of caulicle, one or more cotyledons and a plumule.
From Seeds of Michigan Weeds Bulletin 260, Michigan State Agricultural College Experiment Station, Division of Botany, March, 1910 by Beal, W. J. (William James)
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
Same opened out, to show the thick cotyledons and the little plumule or bud between them.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
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