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growing point
noun
, Botany.
- the undifferentiated end of a root, shoot, or vegetative axis consisting of a single cell or group of cells that divide to form primary meristematic tissue.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of growing point1
First recorded in 1825–35
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Example Sentences
Man is, as it were, the growing-point of that progressive life.
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But why should a growing shoot or a growing point in general produce such a suction?
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This growing point splits, and gives rise to several fibrils, which are new axis-cylinders.
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These forming roots might also be marked very early, and so be shown to carry onward their root-cap on the growing-point.
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This growing point is usually protected by a peculiar cap, which insinuates its way through the crevices of the soil.
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