1. a small or young plant, especially one that develops from a parent plant
Usage: botany

Examples

• The spider plant produced several plantlets along its runners.
• Each plantlet can be separated and grown into a new plant.
• The gardener carefully transplanted the tiny plantlets into individual pots.
• Strawberry plants send out stolons that develop plantlets at their tips.
• The plantlets were still attached to the mother plant by thin stems.
• She rooted the plantlets in water before planting them in soil.