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

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

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

Germination, the development of a plantlet from the seed, 12.

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

Imagine the tiny primrose plantlet to be made up of cells filled with active living protoplasm, which drinks in starch and other food from the seed-leaves.

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

Plumule, the bud or first shoot of a germinating plantlet above the cotyledons, 13.

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

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