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

The first root and the stem arise from the cells next the 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

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

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