planticle

Diminutive of plant.

planticle (plural planticles)

1. (archaic) A young or small plant, or plant in embryo.
   • 1800, Erasmus Darwin, Phytologia:

     the ripe seed consists of two lobes adhering to a planticle, and surrounded by a thin membrane, which is itself covered with a hulk or cuticle

• “planticle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• plant lice