disseminulen.
/dɪˈsɛmɪnjuːl/ Botany.
Any part of a plant that serves to propagate it, such as a seed or spore.
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1904 F. E. Clements in Bot. Surv. Nebraska No. 7. 51 Disseminules designed to pass through a resting period are often brought into conditions where they germinate at once.
1932 G. D. Fuller & H. S. Conard tr. J. Braun-Blanquet Plant Sociol. i. 17 The numerical superiority of shoots and disseminules of certain species is certainly important here.
1960 N. Polunin Introd. Plant Geogr. iv. 97 In nature only a small proportion of the plant bodies which become dispersed, and which may conveniently be termed disseminules (diaspores), actually become established and effect migration.
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