plumule

English

Etymology

From Latin plumula, diminutive of pluma (“feather”); compare French plumule.

Noun

plumule (plural plumules)

(botany) The first bud, or growing point, of a plant embryo, situated above the cotyledons.
Synonym: gemmule
(zoology) A down feather.
(zoology) The aftershaft of a feather.
(zoology) One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.

Translations

first bud, or growing point, of a plant embryo

Bulgarian: кълн (bg) m (kǎln)
Catalan: plúmula f
Finnish: alkeissilmu
French: plumule (fr) f
German: Plumula (de) f
Indonesian: plumula
Malay: plumul
Maori: mātātupu
Spanish: plúmula f
Welsh: cyneginyn m

References

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

French

Noun

plumule f (plural plumules)

plumule

Further reading

“plumule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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