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seminule

seminule noun: a very small seed or spore.

Noun

seminule (plural seminules)

  1. (obsolete) A very small seed or spore.
    • Seminules appear to differ only from seeds by their minuteness. […] The seminules of cryptogamous plants are produced in ovaries to which stigmas are attached; but those of agamous plants are contained in a sort of ovary, to which no stigma being attached, they are disginguished by the peculiar...1819, The London Medical Repository, volume 11, page 289
    • Germination of its seminule, as observed by Hedwig, very much magnified; showing the seminule throwing out a radicle, and a succulent thread, considered as a cotyledon, which appears to be jointed, and having nipples which elongate into branches.1821, A Natural Arrangement of British Plants, page 270

Forms of seminule

pluralseminules

Questions about seminule

What does seminule mean?
Seminule means a very small seed or spore.
What part of speech is seminule?
Seminule is a noun.
What is the plural of seminule?
The plural of seminule is seminules.

Words near seminule in the dictionary

  1. seminorms
  2. seminose
  3. seminovel
  4. seminude
  5. seminudity
  6. seminule
  7. seminules
  8. seminumerate
  9. seminumerical
  10. seminuria
  11. seminvariant

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