suspensor

suspensor
/seuh spen"seuhr/, n.
1. a suspensory ligament, bandage, etc.
2. Bot. 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.
[1740-50; < NL suspensor, equiv. to suspend-, s. of suspendere to SUSPEND + -tor -TOR, with dt > s]

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