Associations to the word «Plumule»
Wiktionary
PLUMULE, noun. (botany) The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons.
PLUMULE, noun. (zoology) A down feather.
PLUMULE, noun. (zoology) The aftershaft of a feather.
PLUMULE, noun. (zoology) One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies.
Dictionary definition
PLUMULE, noun. Down feather of young birds; persists in some adult birds.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.