plantlet

American  

[plant-lit, plahnt-] / ˈplænt lɪt, ˈplɑnt- /

noun

1. a little plant, as one produced on the leaf margins of a kalanchoe or the aerial stems of a spider plant.

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Etymology

Origin of plantlet

First recorded in 1810–20; plant + -let

Example Sentences

A seed contains a plantlet which develops as such.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas

This little plantlet feeds upon this stored food until its roots are prepared to do their work.

From The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Shaw, Ellen Eddy

They are really cells full of protoplasm, with one little dark spot in each of them, which by-and-by is to make our little plantlet that we found in the seed.

From The Fairy-Land of Science by Buckley, Arabella B.

A year ago I sowed seed by the ounce each of A. alpina and of A. sulphurea, but as yet not a single plantlet has rewarded me for my trouble.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various

The dormant plantlet in a seed is also known as an embryo.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various