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a1711 R. Atkyns Anc. & Present State Glostershire (1712) 492/1 There are four Coats of Arms in the four Corners of the inside of the Tower: 1. The Earl of Gloster..; 4. A Plantlet in a Border.

1816 P. Keith Syst. Physiol. Bot. II. 17 At the end of the ninth day the plantlet had wholly escaped from its integuments.

1846 N. Amer. Rev. July 218 The common bulblet-bearing lily of our gardens produces its buds or bulbs above ground, which separate, as independent plantlets, as soon as they are formed.

1877 F. G. Heath Fern World 10 This plantlet or embryo consists of two principal organs united to each other.

1899 G. Massee Text-bk. Plant Dis. 54 The term ‘damping off’ is applied to a disease of seedlings, characterised by the falling over and dying of the plantlets.

1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) i. 18 For a seed is not just part of a plant; detached it is a complete plant, with a plantlet folded inside, a supply of food, an infinitesimal supply of moisture.

1970 Nature 19 Sept. 1265/2 Anthers from entirely white shoots gave rise to white plantlets.

1995 Independent on Sunday 23 July (Review Suppl.) 60/1 From this hardy specimen thousands of plantlets are being grown using micro-propagation techniques, so effectively they are all clones.