Hypocotyl is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.
You can make 177 anagrams from letters in hypocotyl (chlooptyy).
First recorded in 1875-80; hypo- + cotyl(edon)
The rodlike part is called the hypocotyl (meaning under the cotyledons).
If the cotyledon be shaded and the light be permitted to fall on one side of the hypocotyl, no heliotropic curving takes place.
A later stage shows the hypocotyl lifting the cotyledon upward.
Below the sheathing leaf is a narrow length which will be distinguished as the hypocotyl, and where growth is very active.
In consequence the hypocotyl forms an arch, dragging after it the bulky cotyledons.
Contrary to generally accepted view the hypocotyl not only perceives but responds to light.
A lens focusses the light from O, on the hypocotyl, and that from O', on the tip of the cotyledon.
Hence considerable doubt may be entertained as regards the supposed absence of perception in the hypocotyl of Setaria.
The part of the stem below the cotyledons (hypocotyl) commonly plays the greater part in bringing this about.
hypocotyle, or hypocotyl, part of stem below the cotyledons, 11.
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