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corcle, corcule Bot.|ˈkɔːk(ə)l, ˈkɔːkjuːl|
[ad. L. corculum, dim. of cor heart: in mod.F. corcule. The L. form is also in use.]
A name for the embryo in the seed of a plant.
[1772Ann. Reg. 171 The cotyledons..which include the corculum or first principle of the future plant.] 1810Ibid. 111 The position of the corcle in the seed is always in the vicinity of the hilum. 1826Good Bk. Nat. (1834) I. 166 It is the corcle which is the true punctum saliens of vegetable life. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. ii. 106 At the base of the plumule is the corcule, or germ of the future plant. |