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Definition of Plumule
1. Noun. Down feather of young birds; persists in some adult birds.
Definition of Plumule
1. n. The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of Radicle.
Definition of Plumule
1. Noun. (botany) The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. ¹
2. Noun. (zoology) A down feather. ¹
3. Noun. (zoology) The aftershaft of a feather. ¹
4. Noun. (zoology) One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Plumule
1. the primary bud of a plant embryo [n -S] : PLUMULAR [adj]
Medical Definition of Plumule
1. The portion of an embryo that gives rise to the shoot system (as distinct from the root system) of a plant. Compare: radicle. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plumule
Literary usage of Plumule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Class-book of Botany: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Other by Alphonso Wood (1869)
"... fissure, beneath which lies the plumule ; 5, vertical section of the same ;
d, the radicle seen beneath the fetore ; 0, germinating seed of Alisma ; a, ..."
2. Analytical Class-book of Botany: Designed for Academies and Private Students by Frances Harriet Green, Joseph W. Congdon (1857)
"4, Plate V. It consists of three parts—the Radicle, the plumule and the ...
THE plumule is the young bud which crowns the radicle, and is inclosed within ..."
3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1905)
"46 is taken from a transverse section passing through the base of the plumule,
and here can be seen the whole series of leaf fundaments. ..."
4. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1898)
"larger cells of the scutellum. They contain some starch, considerable fat, but
mostly protein. The cells of the plumule Fig. 9. Mexican corn, popcorn type, ..."
5. Experiments with plants by Winthrop John Van Leuven Osterhout (1905)
"The plumule emerging from between Ihe elongated stalks of the seed-leaves.
transversely, as shown in Fig. 50? ..."
6. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1908)
"At the small end of these peculiar bodies is the plumule, where are concealed
the first leaves of the plant, while the other end of the hypocotyl is much ..."
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