Botany. = embryo, n. 4. Obsolete.

A plant embryo within a seed; (also) the plumule of the embryo in a germinating seed. Cf. germ, n. 2b. Obsolete.

The embryo or radicle of a seed. Obsolete. rare. Cf. nib, n.1 4b.

Botany. The primary root of a plant embryo or seedling.

A plant during its development within the seed, consisting (in its most mature form in a higher plant) of a plumule, a radicle, and one or two…

= sense A. 4; (formerly also) †a seedling or young plant (obsolete).

Chiefly Botany. More fully plantula seminalis. An embryo plant; = plantule, n. Obsolete.

An undeveloped or embryo plant; (also) a tiny or diminutive plant. Cf. plantule, n.

The embryo plant within a seed, (in later use) esp. that of a cereal grain. Also (as a mass noun): the component of grain or flour consisting of…

spec. The embryo or radicle of a seed. Cf. neb, n. 5c. Obsolete. rare.

= radicle, n. 1a.

An embryonic or very young plant; a seedling. Cf. plantlet, n.

= radicle, n. 1a.

Botany. The radicle of a seed. Cf. rostel, n. Obsolete.

= radicle, n. 1a.

The radicle of a seed; cf. rostellum, n. 1.

Botany. The heart-shaped embryo in the seed of a plant. Obsolete.

A name for the embryo in the seed of a plant.

The filament of cells that forms the earliest stage of a bryophyte life cycle; = protonema, n. 1. Obsolete.

The embryonic axis or primitive stem, which bears the cotyledons; the caulicle or radicle. Sometimes applied to the plumule, which is properly the…

Botany. A part of the embryo in angiosperms, from which the root and root-cap are developed.

Botany. A mass of dividing cells produced artificially in tissue culture from a single somatic or gametic cell of a parent plant, and which is…