planticle

English

Etymology

Diminutive of plant.

Noun

planticle (plural planticles)

1. A young 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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “planticle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• plant lice