budlet
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
budlet (plural budlets)
- (botany) A smaller or secondary bud, usually growing from a parent bud.
- (Can we date this quote?), Erasmus Darwin, Phytologia:
- We have a criterion to distinguish one bud from another, or the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring.
- 2009, Baruch Rinkevich, Valeria Matranga, Stem Cells in Marine Organisms:
- As zooid, bud and budlet development is closely coordinated, the stage of a colony during its blastogenetic cycle is univocally defined and expressed by a formula of three numbers separated by slashes
References edit
- “budlet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.