The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plantlet \Plant"let\, n. A little plant.
Wiktionary
n. young or small plants used as propagules.
WordNet
n. a young plant or a small plant
Wikipedia
Plantlets are young or small plants. Many plants such as spider plants naturally create stolons with plantlets on the ends as a form of asexual reproduction. Vegetative propagules or clippings of mature plants may form plantlets.
Usage examples of "plantlet".
The leggers had come out to inspect their garden because, through some unknown method of detection, they knew that the plantlets had been disturbed.
She worked with one of her favorites, an enormous African violet that had come from a plantlet her grandmother had given her more than thirty years before.
After gently embedding the thin roots of the plantlets in the sticky stuff, they raced off toward the hole in the tube.
After gently embedding the thin roots of the plantlets in the sticky stuff, they raced off towards the hole in the blue.
In a little while the whole slope was dotted with minute plantlets standing at attention in the blaze of the sun.
Mouse gloomily, on hands and knees after erring plantlets of Sweet Alice that had seeded among a shallow tub of cacti.
Intent on the narrow spaces between the leaves, she lucked out, arrowing between thickly leafed tubes into a relatively clear space where the tiny plantlets must have been newly inserted.