cotyledon

• Sugar beet is emerging and the most forward crops at fully expended cotyledon are about to receive their first post-emergence spray. —  FWi - All News
• As their name indicates, there is but one cotyledon or seed leaf, and the leaves from the first are alternate. —  Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
• This is sometimes called the endosperm Within the cotyledon will be found a little growing shoot pointed toward the top of the kernel. —  The First Book of Farming
• In many Monocotyledons the terminal cell forms the cotyledonary portion alone of the shoot of the embryo, its axial part and the root being derived from the adjacent cell; the cotyledon is thus a terminal structure and the apex of the primary stem a lateral one--a condition in marked contrast with that of the Dicotyledons. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
• In some Monocotyledons, however, the cotyledon is not really terminal. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1

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