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

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Example Sentences

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plantlet

In the hole the plantlet should then be suspended so all the roots and a little of the stem beneath the surface will be covered when the soil is replaced.

From Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by M. G. (Maurice Grenville) Kains

The seed coats need not be lettered, as they do not belong to the plantlet.

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

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 Ellen Eddy Shaw

The germ remains in the vesicle, and finally becomes the embryo, fully developed into a plantlet, as may be seen in many seeds.

From The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot. by D. A. Compton

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 Arabella B. Buckley

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