hypocotyln.
/hʌɪpə(ʊ)ˈkɒtɪl//hɪpə(ʊ)ˈkɒtɪl//ˈhʌɪpə(ʊ)kɒtɪl/ Botany.
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hypocotyl1880
1880 C. Darwin & F. Darwin Power of Movement in Plants 5 With seedlings, the stem..has been called by many botanists the hypocotyledonous stem, but for brevity sake we will speak of it merely as the hypocotyl.
1880 C. Darwin & F. Darwin Power of Movement in Plants 10 The radicles, hypocotyls, and cotyledons of seedling plants.
1882 Nature 23 Mar. 482 Buck-wheat plants grow from small seeds containing a small hypocotyl, that enlarges afterwards to an exceedingly long part.
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hypoˈcotylous adj. of or pertaining to the hypocotyl.
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