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单词 suspensor
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suspensor

[ suh-spen-ser ]
/ səˈspɛn sər /

noun

a suspensory ligament, bandage, etc.
Botany. a cellular structure, developed along with the embryo in seed-bearing plants, that bears the embryo at its apex and by elongation carries the embryo to its food source.

Origin of suspensor

1740–50; <New Latin suspēnsor, equivalent to suspend-, stem of suspendere to suspend + -tor-tor, with dt>s

Words nearby suspensor

suspension bridge, suspension point, suspension points, suspensive, suspensoid, suspensor, suspensory, suspensory bandage, suspensory ligament, suspensory ligament of axilla, suspensory ligament of breast
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Example sentences from the Web for suspensor

  • The first root and the stem arise from the cells next the suspensor.

    Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany|Douglas Houghton Campbell
  • The embryo e, with its suspensor, is contained in the sac, the radicle pointing to the micropyle m.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3|Various

British Dictionary definitions for suspensor

suspensor
/ (səˈspɛnsə) /

noun

another name for suspensory (def. 1)
botany (in a seed) a row of cells attached to the embryo plant, by means of which it is pushed into the endosperm
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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