suspensor

[ suh-spen-ser ]

/ səˈspɛn sər /

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.

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Words nearby suspensor

suspension bridge, suspension point, suspension points, suspensive, suspensoid, suspensor, suspensory, suspensory bandage, suspensory ligament, suspensory ligament of axilla, suspensory ligament of breast

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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Example sentences from the Web for suspensor

The first root and the stem arise from the cells next the suspensor.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany|Douglas Houghton Campbell
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

British Dictionary definitions for suspensor

suspensor

/ (səˈspɛnsə) /

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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