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Petiole   Listen
noun
Petiole  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem.
2.
(Zool.) A stalk or peduncle.





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"Petiole" Quotes from Famous Books



... 40 to 50 ft. high, were numerous, most graceful to look at, with their ten or eleven huge compound leaves placed like an open fan. Yellow filaments of some length hung in a cluster where the petiole ...
— Across Unknown South America • Arnold Henry Savage Landor
... leaf has everything that belongs to it it has a little stalk of its own that is called a petiole; and at the foot of the petiole it has two tiny leaflets called stipules, and it has what we usually speak of as 'the leaf' which is really ...
— Ethel Morton's Enterprise • Mabell S.C. Smith


Words linked to "Petiole" :   leafstalk, stalk, stem


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