Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Botany A usually multicellular filamentous structure in seed plants and some pteridophytes that develops from the zygote and serves to transport nutrients to the embryo. It degenerates later in embryogenesis.
- noun An athletic supporter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which suspends.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A suspensory.
- noun (Bot.) The cord which suspends the embryo; and which is attached to the radicle in the young state; the proembryo.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US An
athletic support ; ajockstrap - noun The
cord which suspends theembryo , and which is attached to theradicle in the young state; theproembryo .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a support for the genitals worn by men engaging in strenuous exercise
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The germinal vesicle now secretes a wall, divides into two parts, and while the rest of the embyro-sac fills with endosperm cells, it produces by cell division from the upper half a short row of cells termed a suspensor, and from the lower half a mass of cells constituting the embryo.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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Operating long-dormant controls, he managed to get the dual bank of suspensor engines functioning.
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The first root and the stem arise from the cells next the suspensor.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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In Dicotyledons the shoot of the embryo is wholly derived from the terminal cell of the pro-embryo, from the next cell the root arises, and the remaining ones form the suspensor.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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In WT embryos expression is seen in the lens shape and the upper suspensor cells.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Ora Hazak et al. 2010
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Arrowheads in (M and N) mark abnormal division in hypophysis and suspensor; vertical brackets in (O and P) mark unshaped basal region.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Ora Hazak et al. 2010
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They also move quadrupedally in the trees and they also use a suspensor manner to move around in a feeding source.
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] Reidt93 2010
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Arrows denote abnormal cell divisions in the suspensor and hypophysis.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Ora Hazak et al. 2010
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From the triangular stage and onward, abnormal divisions of the suspensor, QC and columella cells were detected.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Ora Hazak et al. 2010
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Arrowheads in (B) indicate abnormal divisions in suspensor and columella initials; arrowhead in (C and D) marks abnormal division in protoderm.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Ora Hazak et al. 2010
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