Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a little or rudimentary stem: applied to the initial stem (more frequently but incorrectly called the radicle) in the embryo, to distinguish it from the cotyledons. Also
caulicule and cauliculus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A short caulis or stem, esp. the rudimentary stem seen in the embryo of a seed; -- otherwise called a
radicle .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A small
stalk orstem , especially the rudimentary stalk of aseed embryo
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Examples
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When seeds germinate, the lower end of the caulicle, which becomes the root, bears large numbers of root-hairs.
Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Theories are put forward, most learned theories, introducing capillary action, osmosis and cellular imbibition, to explain why the caulicle ascends and the radical descends.
The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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