plumule

English

Etymology

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

Noun

plumule (plural plumules)

1. (botany) The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons.
2. (zoology) A down feather.
3. (zoology) The aftershaft of a feather.
4. (zoology) One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.

Translations

the first bud

• Catalan: plúmula f
• Finnish: alkeissilmu
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• Maori: mātātupu
• Spanish: plúmula f

References

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