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

But the embryo is already a miniature plantlet, sometimes with hardly any visible distinction of parts, but often one which has already made very considerable growth in the seed.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Embryo, the rudimentary plantlet in a seed, 11, 127.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

The Embryo or Germ, which is the rudimentary plantlet and the final result of blossoming, and its development in germination have been extensively illustrated in Sections II. and III.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Only think how minute this plantlet must be in a primrose, where the whole seed is scarcely larger than a grain of sand!

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

The whole plantlet in the seed is the embryo or germ, whence the sprouting of seeds is called germination.

From Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf by Newell, Jane H.