endoptile

[Gr. end on =within, and ptilon =a feather.] Bot.: Having an embryo with the plumate rolled up in the cotyledons. Example given: Endogenous plants. *en-döre, v . t . [O. Fr. endorer; Lat. indeauro.] To gild, to make of a yellow color. "Endore hem with yolkes of egges."- Liber Cure Cocorum , p. 37.