HyperDic: root_cap

English > 1 sense of the expression root cap:
NOUNplantroot capthimble-shaped mass of cells covering and protecting the growing tip of a root
English > root cap: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningthimble-shaped mass of cells covering and protecting the growing tip of a root.
Part ofroot(botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes
Broaderplant organA functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus

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