plumule

English

Etymology

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

Noun

plumule (plural plumules)

1. (botany) The first bud, or growing point, of a plant embryo, situated above the cotyledons.

   Synonym: gemmule

2. (zoology) A down feather.
3. (zoology) The aftershaft of a feather.
4. (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)

1. plumule

Further reading

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