Word Meanings - PLANTULE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.

Related words: (words related to PLANTULE)

• EMBRYO SAC
  See EMBRYONIC
• EMBRYOTOMY
  The cutting a fetus into pieces within the womb, so as to effect its removal.
• EMBRYON
  See EMBRYO
• BEGUN
  of Begin.
• EMBRYOGRAPHY
  The general description of embryos.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• EMBRYOTROPH
  The material from which an embryo is formed and nourished.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• EMBRYOPLASTIC
  Relating to, or aiding in, the formation of an embryo; as, embryoplastic cells.
• EMBRYONATE; EMBRYONATED
  In the state of, or having, an embryonal.
• EMBRYOLOGIST
  One skilled in embryology.
• EMBRYONIC
  Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary. Embryonic sac or vesicle , the vesicle within which the embryo is developed in the ovule; -- sometimes called also amnios sac, and embryonal sac.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• EMBRYONARY
  Embryonic.
• EMBRYOTIC
  Embryonic.
• EMBRYOLOGY
  The science which relates to the formation and development of the embryo in animals and plants; a study of the gradual development of the ovum until it reaches the adult stage.
• EMBRYOGONY
  The formation of an embryo.
• DEVELOPMENTAL
  Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the process of development; as, the developmental power of a germ. Carpenter.
• EMBRYONIFEROUS
  Having an embryo.
• EMBRYONAL
  Pertaining to an embryo, or the initial state of any organ; embryonic.
• PROEMBRYO
  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.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• MONEMBRYONY
  The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo. -- Mon*em`bry*on"ic, a.
• INEMBRYONATE
  Not embryonate.
• PSEUDEMBRYO
  A false embryo. An asexual form from which the true embryo is produced by budding.