plantule
English
editEtymology
editFrom French plantule, diminutive of plante (“a plant”), Latin planta.
Noun
editplantule (plural plantules)
- (botany, dated) The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
Translations
editPart 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
editPronunciation
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Noun
editplantule f (plural plantules)
- plantule
- small plant
Further reading
edit- “plantule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.