ACROSPIRE

AC'ROSPIRE, noun [Gr. highest, a spire, or spiral line.]A shoot, or sprout of a seed; the plume, or plumule, so called from its spiral form.

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Ac″ro‐spire (�), n. [] (Bot.) The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; — so called from its spiral form.