plantule

English

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Etymology

From French plantule, diminutive of plante (“a plant”), Latin planta.

Noun

plantule (plural plantules)

  1. (botany, dated) The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.

Translations

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “plantule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

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Noun

plantule f (plural plantules)

  1. plantule
  2. small plant

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