plumule

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: plu=mule

CIDE DICTIONARY

plumule, n. [L. plumula, dim. of pluma a feather; cf. F. plumule.].

•  The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of Radicle.  Gray.  [1913 Webster]
•  A down feather.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

plumule, n.
1 the rudimentary shoot or stem of an embryo plant.
2 a down feather on a young bird.

Derivative

plumulaceous adj. (in sense 2). plumular adj. (in sense 1).

Etymology

F plumule or L plumula, dimin. (as PLUME)

ROGET THESAURUS

plumule

Posterity

N posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat, family, grandchildren, heirs, great-grandchild, child, son, daughter, butcha, bantling, scion, acrospire, plumule, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch, off-shoot, off- set, ramification, descendant, heir, heiress, heir-apparent, heir- presumptive, chip off the old block, heredity, rising generation, straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture, filial, diphyletic, the child is father of the man, the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree, like father, like son.