Root Cap Definition

noun
The loose cells at the tip of a growing root, rubbed off by the motion of the root tip through the soil and constantly renewed from within.
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Root Cap Sentence Examples

  • Outermost layer of root-cap. c. Wall marking the inner limit of the outer cortex.

  • Apical cell, p. Wall marking limit between the plerome k, initial segment of root-cap. P and the pleriblem Pb.

  • The outermost is the caiyptrogen, which gives rise to the root-cap, and in Dicotyledons to the piliferous layer as well.

  • Even the root tip, which shows a certain differentiation into root cap and root apex, cannot be said to be a definite sense organ in the same way as the sense organs of an animal.

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