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Definition of Caulicle
1. n. A short caulis or stem, esp. the rudimentary stem seen in the embryo of seed; -- otherwise called a radicle.
Definition of Caulicle
1. Noun. (botany) A small stalk or stem, especially the rudimentary stalk of a seed embryo ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Caulicle
1. a small stem [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caulicle
Literary usage of Caulicle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1885)
"The tip of the caulicle is generally sensitive to contact and to caustics. ...
If the caulicle with its unformed root is placed under conditions where ..."
2. Outlines of Lessons in Botany: For the Use of Teachers, Or Mothers Studying by Jane Hancox Newell (1892)
"Probably some of the pupils will have called the caulicle the root. It is, however,
of the nature of stem. The root grows only at the end, ..."
3. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by William Jackson Hooker (1855)
"By this time the caulicle has attained a length of an inch or an inch and a half,
and the cotyledons a diameter of one to two lines ; and the pericarp is so ..."
4. A General System of Botany Descriptive and Analytical: In Two Parts by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Joseph Decaisne, Emmanuel Le Maout (1876)
"The caulicle (t) is a small cylindric or conical body, bearing the first leaves
of the plant (fig. 19, c), which ascends to form the stem. ..."
5. First Course in Biology by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Walter Moore Coleman (1908)
"The caulicle is held in a sheath (formed mostly from the seed-coats), ... 28 the
roots are seen emerging from the two ends of the caulicle, FIG. 27. ..."
6. Beginners' Botany by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1909)
"caulicle at c; roots emerging at tn', plumule at p. single cotyledon is at a,
the caulicle at b, the plumule at/. The cotyledon remains in the seed. ..."
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