rootcap

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rootcap - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Rootcap \Root"cap`\ (r[=oo]t"k[a^]p`), n. (Bot.)
     A mass of parenchymatous cells which covers and protects the
     growing cells at the end of a root; a pileorhiza.
     [1913 Webster]