budlet

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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

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