podlet

plural podlets

1. rareA small pod.

   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.

   2007 August 8, Andy Newman, “In Case of Apocalypse Later, a Plan to Ensure America’s Regreening”, in New York Times