suspensor

[ suh-spen-ser ]

noun

1. a suspensory ligament, bandage, etc.
2. 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

/ səˈspɛnsə /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of suspensor¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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The first root and the stem arise from the cells next the suspensor.

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