Usage examples (19)

• The part bearing the tiny leaves was formerly, and is sometimes now, called the plumule, but is generally called the epicotyl, because it grows above or upon the cotyledons.
• For our "plumule" we have also "gemmule", and French has both of these too.
• Pileole another name for germ-sheath, or the sheath covering the plumule in the grain, 18.
• It is important that the leaves on the primary axis arising from the plumule are examined.