suspensor

American  

[suh-spen-ser] / səˈspɛn sər /

noun

1. a suspensory ligament, bandage, etc.

2. 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.

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suspensor British  

/ səˈspɛnsə /

noun

1. another name for suspensory

2. 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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Etymology

Origin of suspensor

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

Example Sentences

The same grounded, less-is-more approach to visual effects was applied to the Baron’s floating suspensor suit.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2021

N–Q, development of the embryo, × 150. sus. suspensor.

From Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses by Campbell, Douglas Houghton

Seeds albuminous, with one integument; the single embryo, usually bearing two partially fused cotyledons, is attached to a long tangled suspensor.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various

The embryo e, with its suspensor, is contained in the sac, the radicle pointing to the micropyle m.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

In Dicotyledons the shoot of the embryo is wholly derived from the terminal cell of the pro-embryo, from the next cell the root arises, and the remaining ones form the suspensor.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various