plumule

Meaning of plumule

noun
  1. the rudimentary shoot or stem of an embryo plant.
  2. a bird's down feather, numbers of which form an insulating layer under the contour feathers.

early 18th century: from French plumule or Latin plumula ‘small feather’, diminutive of pluma ‘down’.

Information about plumule

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of plumule is: plumules.
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Hyphenation of plumule

plumule

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • plumule is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with plumule

mule, hamule, ramule, squamule, cremule, emule, hemule, racemule, dissimule, simule, flammule, gemmule, chromule, formule, germule, spermule, cymule

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