Podlet

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small pod. rare

    "Now, next to the greenhouses, a walk-in cooler is filling up with little cotton sacks and plastic bags, each containing thousands of seeds in every possible shape and shade of earth tone — olive-green pellets, reddish-brown shields, fluffy tan podlets with little wings."

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"Now, next to the greenhouses, a walk-in cooler is filling up with little cotton sacks and plastic bags, each containing thousands of seeds in every possible shape and shade of earth tone — olive-green pellets, reddish-brown shields, fluffy tan podlets with little wings."

Etymology

From pod + -let.

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