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Definition of Coleorhiza
1. n. A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle.
Definition of Coleorhiza
1. Noun. A sheath-like structure found in a plant seed that connects the coleoptile to the primary root and acts as a protective covering enclosing the plumule and radicle. ¹
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Definition of Coleorhiza
1. [n -ZAE]
Medical Definition of Coleorhiza
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Coleorhiza
Literary usage of Coleorhiza
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Cycads by Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1919)
"As the embryo within the germinating seed elongates, the hard coleorhiza ...
As soon as the coleorhiza gets through the fracture, the tip of the root ..."
2. Botany of the Southern States by John Darby (1860)
"162—rod being the radicle, col the coleorhiza, со the cotyledon. This sheath
Mirbel called a coleorhiza, and Richard proposed to substitute ..."
3. Handbook of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger, William Hillhouse (1900)
"The whole of this 'rudimentary root lies in a closed sheath, the coleorhiza (cl),
and is sharply limited towards it by a clear line, which indicates the ..."
4. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1855)
"This coleorhiza is sometimes extended to some distance, along with the rootlet;
but in other cases it forms merely an areola around its base. ..."
5. A Course of Practical Instruction in Botany by Frederick Orpen Bower (1891)
"Outside the radicle, and continuous with the root-cap, is a root-sheath, or
coleorhiza : note that the body of the radicle is covered externally by a ..."
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