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Mesocotyl

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hypocotylnoun(botany) In plants with seeds, that portion of the embryo or seedling between the root and cotyledons.
epicotylnoun(botany) In plants with seeds, that portion of the embryo or seedling above the cotyledons.
plumulenoun(zoology) A down feather.
colletnounA band, flange, ferrule, or collar, designed to grip and hold a tool or a workpiece under proper control, and usually to release it under control thereafter; such a collet usually is made of a hard, springy material, especially a metal.
cotyledonnoun(botany) The leaf of the embryo of a seed-bearing plant; after germination it becomes the first leaves of the seedling.
corculumnoun(botany, obsolete) The central part of a seed, from which the new plant develops.
scutellumnounAny of several shield-shaped structures in insects, grasses etc
cormnounA short, vertical, swollen, underground stem of a plant (usually one of the monocots) that serves as a storage organ to enable the plant to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as drought.
seed-lobenoun(botany) A cotyledon.
gemmulenoun(biology) (specifically, zoology) A small gemma or bud of dormant embryonic cells produced by some freshwater sponges (phylum Porifera) that develops into a new sponge.
cauliclenoun(botany) A small stalk or stem, especially the rudimentary stalk of a seed embryo
tigellanoun(cooking) A small, round or crescent-shaped bread from the Apennines in the Modena area of northern Italy.
protocormnoun(botany) A tuberous mass of cells that is the embryonic form of orchids and club mosses
microcotyledonnounOne of a group of very small cotyledons in the fetomaternal interface of the (typically equine) placenta
mesospermnoun(botany) A membrane of a seed.
ocreanoun(botany) A sheath around a plant stem forming from the stipule of a leaf and extending above the point of insertion of the leaf.
stylulusnoun(botany) The elongated apex of a free carpel which functions like the style of a syncarpous ovary, allowing pollen tubes from its stigma to enter the locule of only that carpel.
meristemnoun(botany) The plant tissue composed of totipotent cells that allows plant growth.
mictoplasmnoun(botany) Any phloem containing sieve cells.
stipenounThe stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.

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