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root cap

the loose cells at the tip of a growing root, rubbed off by the motion of the root tip through the soil and constantly renewed from within

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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