PLANTLET Synonyms

• a partially opened flower

• a swelling on a plant stem consisting of overlapping immature leaves or petals

• develop buds

• start to grow or develop

• a natural consequence of development

• the immediate descendants of a person

• something that comes into existence as a result

• any immature animal

• someone who imports or exports without paying duties

• someone who travels on foot by running

• a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents

• a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)

• a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

• a trained athlete who competes in foot races

• (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play

• a long narrow carpet

• device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along

• fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil

• a descendant or heir

• a new branch

• the act of shooting at targets

• hit with a missile from a weapon

• kill by firing a missile

• fire a shot; release

• make a film or photograph of something

• send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly

• run or move very quickly or hastily

• move quickly and violently

• throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective

• record on photographic film

• emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully

• cause a sharp and sudden pain in

• force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing

• variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors

• throw dice, as in a crap game

• spend frivolously and unwisely

• score

• utter fast and forcefully

• measure the altitude of by using a sextant

• produce buds, branches, or germinate

• give an injection to

• a socially awkward or tactless act

• a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.

• potter's clay that is thinned and used for coating or decorating ceramics

• a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting

• a young and slender person

• a place where a craft can be made fast

• an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall

• a slippery smoothness

• artifact consisting of a narrow flat piece of material

• a small sheet of paper

• a woman's sleeveless undergarment

• bed linen consisting of a cover for a pillow

• an unexpected slide

• a flight maneuver; aircraft slides sideways in the air

• the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)

• move stealthily

• insert inconspicuously or quickly or quietly

• move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner

• fall to a lower standard

• move smoothly and easily

• to make a mistake or be incorrect

• pass on stealthily

• move easily

• cause to move with a smooth or sliding motion

• pass out of one's memory

• move out of position

• any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud

• a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed)

• produce buds, branches, or germinate

• put forth and grow sprouts or shoots

• a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

• a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of

• a shoot arising from a plant's roots

• a drinker who sucks (as at a nipple or through a straw)

• flesh of any of numerous North American food fishes with toothless jaws

• hard candy on a stick

• an organ specialized for sucking nourishment or for adhering to objects by suction

• mostly North American freshwater fishes with a thick-lipped mouth for feeding by suction; related to carps

• a shoot that sprouts from the base of a grass

• someone who tills land (prepares the soil for the planting of crops)

• lever used to turn the rudder on a boat

• a farm implement used to break up the surface of the soil (for aeration and weed control and conservation of moisture)

• grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers

• a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year

• branch out in a twiglike manner

• understand, usually after some initial difficulty

• A reproductive particle released by an organism that may germinate into another.