plumule

• The sheath which envelopes the radicle is called =coleorhiza= and that of the plumule, =pileole= or =germ-sheath CHAPTER IV HISTOLOGY OF THE VEGETATIVE ORGANS The shoots and roots of grasses conform in their internal structure to the monocotyledonous type. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• In the next step the calyx, more developed than usual, was separated from the corolla by a long peduncle, and the ovary, which was ovate, contained instead of a placenta a sort of plumule or young shoot 3. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• This group includes Juglans rupestris_, Texas black walnut, J. nigra_, eastern black walnut, J. honorei_, Ecuador walnut, J. pyriformis_, Mexican walnut, J. major_, Arizona black walnut, J. californica_, California black walnut, and J. hindsii_, Hind's black walnut It is important that the leaves on the primary axis arising from the plumule are examined. —  Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943
• The part bearing the tiny leaves was formerly, and is sometimes now, called the plumule, but is generally called the epicotyl, because it grows above or upon the cotyledons. —  The First Book of Farming
• The last plumule floated away. —  The Lilac Sunbonnet

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