disseminule Bot.
(dɪˈsɛmɪnjuːl)
[Irreg. f. disseminate v. + -ule.]
Any part of a plant that serves to propagate it, such as a seed or spore.
| 1904 F. E. Clements in Bot. Surv. Nebraska VII. 51 Disseminules designed to pass through a resting period are often brought into conditions where they germinate at once. 1932 Fuller & Conard tr. Braun-Blanquet's Plant Sociol. i. 17 The numerical superiority of shoots and disseminules of certain species is certainly important here. 1960 N. Polunin Introd. Plant Geogr. iv. 97 In nature only a small proportion of the plant bodies which become dispersed, and which may conveniently be termed disseminules (diaspores), actually become established and effect migration. |