plumula

From Latin plūmula (“a small feather”).

plumula (plural plumulas or plumulae)

1. (botany) A plumule.
2. (zoology) A down feather.

• “plumula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From plūma (“feather”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɫuː.mʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpluː.mu.la]

plūmula f (genitive plūmulae); first declension

1. a small feather
2. a down feather

First-declension noun.

• Catalan: plúmula
• English: plumule, plumula
• → Spanish: plúmula
• → Portuguese: plúmula

• “plumula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press