budlet meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

budlet

noun

Etymology From bud + -let.

Biology, Botany, Natural sciences A smaller or secondary bud, usually growing from a parent bud.

We have a criterion to distinguish one bud from another, or the parent bud from the numerous budlets which are its offspring.(Can we date this quote?), Erasmus Darwin, Phytologia:
As zooid, bud and budlet development is closely coordinated, the stage of a colony during its blastogenetic cycle is univocally defined and expressed by a formula of three numbers separated by slashes2009, Baruch Rinkevich, Valeria Matranga, Stem Cells in Marine Organisms: