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ALL meanings of calyptrogen

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  • noun calyptrogen a layer of rapidly dividing cells at the tip of a plant root, from which the root cap is formed. It occurs in grasses and many other plants 3
  • noun calyptrogen the layer of actively dividing cells at the tip of a root in many plants, as grasses, that produces the root cap 3
  • noun calyptrogen the histogen layer that develops into the root cap. 1
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