Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Rootcap

Rootcap (rot"kap`) , noun

(Botany) A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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