a perennating bud produced by many aquatic plants: it detaches from the parent plant and remains dormant until the following spring
Word origin
C17: from French turion, from Latin turio shoot
turion in American English
(ˈturiˌɑn, ˈtjur-)
noun
Botany
a small shoot, as of asparagus or certain aquatic plants, from which a new plant can develop
Word origin
[‹ L turiōn- (s. of turiō) young shoot]
Examples of 'turion' in a sentence
turion
Gene expression analysis revealed that each gene was associated with distinct temporal expression during turion formation.
Wang Wenqin, Messing Joachim 2012, 'Analysis of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase expression during turion formation inducedby abscisic acid in Spirodela polyrhiza (greater duckweed)', BMC Plant Biologyhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/12/5. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)