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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

plumule

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
plumule
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The first bud, or growing point, of a plant embryo, situated above the cotyledons.

noun

A down feather.

noun

The aftershaft of a feather.

noun

One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.

Etymology

From Latin plūmula, diminutive of plūma (“feather”); compare French plumule. By surface analysis, plume + -ule.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: *plewk-, plūmula

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Inflected Forms

plumules (plural)

Derived Forms

plumulaceous plumular plumulose

Synonyms

gemmule

Questions

What does plumule mean?
The first bud, or growing point, of a plant embryo, situated above the cotyledons.
Where does plumule come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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