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Plumule

Plumule Meaning & Definition
Plumule Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Plumule?

[n] down feather of young birds; persists in some adult birds

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See Also | down | down feather

Plumule In Webster's Dictionary

\Plu"mule\, n. [L. plumula, dim. of pluma a feather; cf. F. plumule.] 1. (Bot.) The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of {Radicle}. --Gray. 2. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A down feather. (b) The aftershaft of a feather. See Illust. under {Feather}. (c) One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.

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