plantule Bot. ? Obs.
(ˈplæntjuːl)
[ad. mod.L. plantula, dim. of planta a shoot, slip.]
An embryonic or rudimentary plant.
| [1706 Phillips, Plantula Seminalis, (among Herbalists) is the little Herb that lies as it were an Embryo in miniature in every Seed.] 1733–40 Tull Horse-hoeing Husb. Add. 264 'Tis as unreasonable to suppose a Power in an animal or vegetable Body to produce Animalcles or Plantules from inorganical Matter by Secretions of the Aliment. 1766 Compl. Farmer s.v. Seed, The rest of the seed serves to feed the young plant, or plantule. 1791 E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. Notes 106 After fecundation a body begins to appear..which in process of time proves to be two lobes containing a plantule. 1865 Reader No. 143. 355/2 The production of amyliferous plantules. |