In botany, a seed is described as 'epigeal' when the cotyledons of the germinating seed expand, throw off the seed shell and become photosynthetic above the ground.
The opposite kind, where the cotyledons remain non-photosynthetic, inside the seed shell, and below ground, is 'hypogeal'.
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