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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A photosynthetic branch or portion of a stem that functions as or resembles a leaf, as the pad of a prickly-pear cactus.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, a leaf-like flattened branch or peduncle, as in Ruscus and some species of Phyllanthus. Also cladophyl.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a flattened stem resembling and functioning as a leaf

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin cladōdium, from Late Greek kladōdēs, many-branched, from Greek klados, branch.]

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