suspensor

[suh-spen-ser]

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noun

a suspensory ligament, bandage, etc.
Botany.��a cellular structure, developed along with the embryo in seed-bearing plants, that bears the embryo at its apex and by elongation carries the embryo to its food source.

suspensor

/ ��əˈ��ɛ�Բ�ə /

noun

another name for suspensory
botany (in a seed) a row of cells attached to the embryo plant, by means of which it is pushed into the endosperm

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Word History and Origins

Origin of suspensor¹

1740–50; < New Latin ��ܲ��ŧ�Բ��ǰ�, equivalent to suspend-, stem of suspendere to suspend + -tor -tor, with dt > s

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The same grounded, less-is-more approach to visual effects was applied to the Baron’s floating suspensor suit.

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Seeds albuminous, with one integument; the single embryo, usually bearing two partially fused cotyledons, is attached to a long tangled suspensor.

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The embryo e, with its suspensor, is contained in the sac, the radicle pointing to the micropyle m.

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N–Q, development of the embryo, ×��150. sus. suspensor.

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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.

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suspensoid suspensory

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