plumelet
(ˈpluːmlɪt)
[f. plume n. + -let.]
† 1. Bot. = plumule 1. Obs.
| 1816 Keith Phys. Bot. II. 17 The plumelet was still enveloped in the seminal leaves. Ibid. II. 224 But the fluid, which has been thus conducted to the radicle,..ascends..to the plumelet through the..tubes of the alburnum. |
2. A minute plume.
| 1850 Tennyson In Mem. xci, When rosy plumelets tuft the larch. 1883 Cornh. Mag. Jan. 57 The plumelets of the butterfly's wing. |
Hence ˈplumeletage (nonce-wd.), small delicate plumage.
| 1855 Bailey Spirit. Leg. in Mystic, etc. 97 Bright humming-bird of gem-like plumeletage, By western Indians living sun-beam named. |