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budlet en · NOUN

Etymology

From bud + -let.

Meanings

1. A smaller or secondary bud, usually growing from a parent bud.
   • 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 2009, Baruch Rinkevich, Valeria Matranga, Stem Cells in Marine Organisms:
   • We have a criterion to distinguish one bud from another, or the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring. (Can we date this quote?), Erasmus Darwin, Phytologia:

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