The round pointed projection was formerly called the radicle, but is now spoken of as the hypocotyl, because it grows below or under the cotyledons. From Wordnik.com. [The First Book of Farming] Reference
The tip of the radicle is a kind of brain to the whole growing part of the radicle!. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Does that make me some kind of radicle denialist, sort of like your AAGW label?. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Indian Ocean Hurricanes « Climate Audit] Reference
This ridiculous "radicle" rant reveals its own radical irrelevance. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
Other nuts were planted in three positions: (1) radicle end up. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946] Reference
Drifting into shallow water the sharp end of the spindly radicle bores into the mud. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
Planting nuts radicle end up produced straighter seedlings than planting them on their side. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946] Reference
Seeds may also be pre-germinated on damp towels and then potted when the radicle just emerges. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
"At first the radicle or root would begin by growing upwards, and the plantule or germ would descend.". From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
Coleorhiza the sheath of a monocotyledonous embryo which is pierced by the radicle during germination, 18. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
"Plantule and radicle are ambitious words, my dear brother; recollect that you are speaking to simple mortals.". From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
Adventitious roots which do not arise from the radicle or its roots subdivisions, but from parts other than these, 7. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Unfortunately, its counterpart in French botanical terminology, radicule, apparently has been anglicised into radicle. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: PLUMULE.] Reference
The sheath which envelopes the radicle is called = coleorhiza = and that of the plumule, = pileole = or = germ-sheath =. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
IGBOANUGO, A.B.I. (1986) Phytotoxic effects of some Eucalypts on food crops, particularly on germination and radicle extension. From Wordnik.com. [14. Saving seeds for planting] Reference
"No, but suppose you were to plant it upside down, with the plantule above and the radicle below; do you think it would grow that way?". From Wordnik.com. [Willis the Pilot] Reference
= -- The tigellar or axial portion of the embryo plant, as contrasted with the radicle proper, is very variously developed in different cases; sometimes it is a mere. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
It is the tip of the radicle of a germinating common bean. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Darwin measured the force of the downward growth of the radicle, such as. From Wordnik.com. [The Breath of Life] Reference
The plumula turns upward, and the radicle ftrikes downward, into the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester] Reference
George Washington himself would march on Washington and scream for radicle change!. From Wordnik.com. [About.com Job Searching] Reference
Both seeds of the Avena germinated, one grew well, the other had its radicle brown and withered. From Wordnik.com. [Insectivorous Plants] Reference
Of the two Rumex seeds, one died and the other germinated; but its radicle was brown and soon withered. From Wordnik.com. [Insectivorous Plants] Reference
The pebbles, though they contain the same chemical elements, do not become active and put out a radicle. From Wordnik.com. [The Breath of Life] Reference
Here is one that has but recently burst its envelope -- do you see the little radicle striking downwards?. From Wordnik.com. [Conversations on Chemistry, V. 1-2 In Which the Elements of that Science Are Familiarly Explained and Illustrated by Experiments] Reference
The plants anchor out on tiny capes, or mid-stream islets, with the nearly sessile radicle leaves submerged. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Little Rain] Reference
If your children are fed and safe generally speaking folks don't join radicle groups and risk everything in suicidal fighting. From Wordnik.com. [Taylor Marsh] Reference
(expanded leaf-like structure) and retain the part with radicle for testing. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
"germ" is the radicle of the cacao seed, or that part of the cacao seed which on germination forms the root. From Wordnik.com. [Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer] Reference
A circle between radicle and hypocotyl may be permeable to fluids, and thus have given rise to projections so as to expose larger surface. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
"De Candolle has divided the Cruciferae into five sub-orders in accordance with the position of the radicle and cotyledons, yet Mons. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
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