"mesocotyl" meaning in English

See mesocotyl in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: mesocotyls [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} mesocotyl (plural mesocotyls)
  1. (botany) The white part of a plant's stem between the buried seed and the plumule Categories (topical): Botany

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for mesocotyl meaning in English (1.7kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mesocotyls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mesocotyl (plural mesocotyls)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with meso-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Botany",
          "orig": "en:Botany",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 March 5, “The Tomato Hoffman’s Anthocyaninless Gene Encodes a bHLH Transcription Factor Involved in Anthocyanin Biosynthesis That Is Developmentally Regulated and Induced by Low Temperatures”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI",
          "text": "The bHLH genes R, B, Sn and Hopi were subsequently identified in maize and shown to induce tissue-specific anthocyanin biosynthesis, including expression in the aleurone layer, scutellum, pericarp, root, mesocotyl, leaf and anther.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The white part of a plant's stem between the buried seed and the plumule"
      ],
      "id": "en-mesocotyl-en-noun-GCUfyJVf",
      "links": [
        [
          "botany",
          "botany"
        ],
        [
          "stem",
          "stem"
        ],
        [
          "seed",
          "seed"
        ],
        [
          "plumule",
          "plumule"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(botany) The white part of a plant's stem between the buried seed and the plumule"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "botany",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mesocotyl"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mesocotyls",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mesocotyl (plural mesocotyls)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with meso-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Botany"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 March 5, “The Tomato Hoffman’s Anthocyaninless Gene Encodes a bHLH Transcription Factor Involved in Anthocyanin Biosynthesis That Is Developmentally Regulated and Induced by Low Temperatures”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI",
          "text": "The bHLH genes R, B, Sn and Hopi were subsequently identified in maize and shown to induce tissue-specific anthocyanin biosynthesis, including expression in the aleurone layer, scutellum, pericarp, root, mesocotyl, leaf and anther.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The white part of a plant's stem between the buried seed and the plumule"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "botany",
          "botany"
        ],
        [
          "stem",
          "stem"
        ],
        [
          "seed",
          "seed"
        ],
        [
          "plumule",
          "plumule"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(botany) The white part of a plant's stem between the buried seed and the plumule"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "botany",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "mesocotyl"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.