budlet

English

Etymology

From bud +‎ -let.

Noun

budlet (plural budlets)

1. (botany) A smaller or secondary bud, usually growing from a parent bud.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Erasmus Darwin, Phytologia:

     We have a criterion to distinguish one bud from another, or the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring.

   • 2009, Baruch Rinkevich, Valeria Matranga, Stem Cells in Marine Organisms:

     As zooid, bud and budlet development is closely coordinated, the stage of a colony during its blastogenetic cycle is univocally defined and expressed by a formula of three numbers separated by slashes

References

• “budlet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• butled, dublet