plumule

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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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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.