plantlet
\ PLANT-lit, PLAHNT- \ , noun;
1.a little plant, as one produced on the leaf margins of a kalanchoe or the aerial stems of a spider plant.
Quotes:
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.
-- Nora Roberts, "Black Rose: In the Garden Trilogy," 2005
He moved the plantlet closer to the light. He had abolished the drapes and pushed the furniture to one side to make room for a long table in front of the windows.
-- Beverly Byrne, "Come Sunrise," 1987
Origin:
Plantlet entered English in the early 1800s. It is a combination of the common word plant and the diminutive suffix -let which is attached to nouns, such as booklet and piglet .
