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EpigealIn botany, a seed is described as epigeal when the cotyledons of the germinating seed expand, throw off the seed shell and become photosynthetic above the ground.The converse, where the cotyledons remain non-photosynthetic, inside the seed shell, and below ground, is hypogeal. |
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