Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the root-cap.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A cap of cells which covers the growing extremity of a root; a rootcap.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A
cap ofcells covering the growingextremity of aroot ; arootcap .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek a cap + root.
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