- The series of cells formed in the ovule of a flowering
plant after fertilization, but before the formation of the embryo. - The primary growth from the spore in certain
cryptogamous plants; as, the proembryo, or protonema, of mosses.
- Note of requisition - Restaurant tab - Written pass - The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout;
as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes. - A child or babe; as, a forward chit; also, a young, small, or
insignificant person or animal. - An excrescence on the body, as a wart. - A small tool used in cleaving laths.
- of Plumula - The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or
growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of
Radicle. - A down feather. - The aftershaft of a feather. See Illust. under Feather. - One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.
- The rudimentary stem of a plant which supports the
cotyledons in the seed, and from which the root is developed downward;
the stem of the embryo; the caulicle. - A rootlet; a radicel.