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Definition of Epicotyl
1. Noun. (botany) In plants with seeds, that portion of the embryo or seedling above the cotyledons. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Epicotyl
1. a part of a plant embryo [n -S]
Medical Definition of Epicotyl
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Epicotyl
Literary usage of Epicotyl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report (1904)
"Cotyledons were first planted with a small piece of the epicotyl left ... When an
epicotyl was injured or removed, first the six buds which had been laid ..."
2. Guayule (Parthenium Argentatum Gray): A Rubber-Plant of the Chihuahuan Desert by Francis Ernest Lloyd (1911)
"epicotyl. Seedlings partially etiolated by being grown under a muslin screen, in
which the internodes have lengthened, render the analysis of the tissues ..."
3. The Power of Movement in Plants by Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1900)
"With dicotyledons the arching of the epicotyl or hypocotyl often appears as if
it merely resulted from the manner in which the parts are packed within the ..."
4. Lectures on the Physiology of Plants by Sydney Howard Vines (1886)
"has been growing more rapidly than the anterior. Like the hypocotyl, the epicotyl
subsequently becomes straight, but not so directly. In the first place, ..."
5. Charles Darwin's Works by Charles Darwin (1896)
"In order to observe the movements of the epicotyl at a somewhat more advanced age,
... This bean had germinated on bare damp sand, and the epicotyl began to ..."
6. Practical Plant Physiology: An Introduction to Original Research for by Wilhelm Detmer, S. A. (Samuel Albert) Moor (1898)
"The curved epicotyl then speedily and completely straightens. ... From this it
is clear that the originally nutating parts of the epicotyl gradually in the ..."
7. Applied Biology: An Elementary Textbook and Laboratory Guide by Maurice Alpheus Bigelow, Anna Nieglieh Bigelow (1911)
"Under such conditions it is important that the seed have a well-developed epicotyl
ready to put forth leaves at an early stage of germination. ..."
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