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