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Plumule

noun
1.
Down feather of young birds; persists in some adult birds.





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... degree links between ordinary flowering plants and the higher Cryptogams, and serve to connect in genealogical sequence groups once considered quite distinct. In germination the two fleshy cotyledons of the Gingkgo remain within the shell, leaving the three-sided plumule to pass upward; the young stem ...
— Scientific American Supplement No. 360, November 25, 1882 • Various


Words linked to "Plumule" :   down, down feather


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