different between seedling vs plumule
seedling
English
Etymology
seed +? -ling
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?si?dl??/
Noun
seedling (plural seedlings)
- (botany) A young plant grown from seed.
- Any young plant, especially:
- one grown in a nursery for transplanting.
- a tree smaller than a sapling.
Synonyms
- chit
Translations
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
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plumule
English
Etymology
From Latin plumula, diminutive of pluma (“feather”); compare French plumule.
Noun
plumule (plural plumules)
- (botany) The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons.
- (zoology) A down feather.
- (zoology) The aftershaft of a feather.
- (zoology) One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.
Translations
References
- plumule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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