suspensor

[suh-spen-ser]

noun

a suspensory ligament, bandage, etc.
Botany. a cellular structure, developed along with the embryo in seed-bearing plants, that bears the embryo at its apex and by elongation carries the embryo to its food source.

Origin of suspensor

1740–50; < New Latin suspēnsor, equivalent to suspend-, stem of suspendere to suspend + -tor -tor, with dt > s

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Historical Examples of suspensor

The embryo e, with its suspensor, is contained in the sac, the radicle pointing to the micropyle m.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3
Various
The first root and the stem arise from the cells next the suspensor.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany
Douglas Houghton Campbell

British Dictionary definitions for suspensor

suspensor

noun

another name for suspensory (def. 1)
botany (in a seed) a row of cells attached to the embryo plant, by means of which it is pushed into the endosperm

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