Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Living or occurring under the earth's surface.
- adjective Botany Of or relating to seed germination in which the cotyledons remain below the surface of the ground.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Subterranean; underground; in botany, growing beneath the surface of the earth, as parts of plants, or in a few instances entire plants, as the truffle and the tuckahoe. Also hypogeous, hypogæous, hypogean, hypogæan.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective existing or growing
underground
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Unable to record the eerie sounds of pigeons in their hypogeal nests, I messed a little with the audio qualities of these spaces myself, with an able assist from the_child.
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Unable to record the eerie sounds of pigeons in their hypogeal nests, I messed a little with the audio qualities of these spaces myself, with an able assist from the_child.
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This contrasts with hypogeal germination, for example, in peaches and maize, in which the cotyledon remains underground and the new shoot grows up above (Figure 6.10).
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Dicotyledons usually store reserve-food in their cotyledons, which may in germination remain below ground (_hypogeal_).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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Time lapse Broad bean hypogeal germination and root growth
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