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Seedling vs Plumule - What's the difference?

seedling | plumule |

In botany terms the difference between seedling and plumule

is that seedling is a young plant grown from seed while plumule is the first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons.

As an adjective seedling

is which is a seedling (see below.

seedling

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • which is a seedling (see below)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) A young plant grown from seed
  • Any young, especially
  • # one grown in a nursery for transplanting
  • # a tree smaller than a sapling.

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    plumule

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons.
  • (zoology) A down feather.
  • (zoology) The aftershaft of a feather.
  • (zoology) One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.

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