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Coleoptile vs Plumule - What's the difference?

coleoptile | plumule |

In botany terms the difference between coleoptile and plumule

is that coleoptile is a pointed sheath that protects the emerging shoot in monocotyledons such as oats and grasses while plumule is the first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons.

coleoptile

English

(wikipedia coleoptile)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) A pointed sheath that protects the emerging shoot in monocotyledons such as oats and grasses.

    • plumule

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons.
  • (zoology) A down feather.
  • (zoology) The aftershaft of a feather.
  • (zoology) One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.

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