cauliclen.
/ˈkɔːlɪk(ə)l/ Botany.
A little stalk or stem; spec. (a) ‘the initial stalk or stem in an embryo, the radicle’ (Gray); (b) a small stem proceeding from a bud formed at the neck of a root, without the previous production of a leaf; (c) the stipe of certain fungals.
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1657 Physical Dict. Caulicles, little stalks.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. ii. 10 Caulicle or Radicle.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. iii. 40 The initial stem, the caulicle.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 448 The foot (caulicle) of the young plant [Salvinia].
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