Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Botany The stalk by which a leaf is attached to a stem.
- noun Zoology A slender, stalklike part, as that connecting the thorax and abdomen in certain insects.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a leafstalk; the stalk or support by which the blade or limb of a leaf is attached to the stem.
- noun In entomology, the slender sclerite or sclerites by which the abdomen of many insects is united to the thorax.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See
Illust. ofleaf . - noun (Zoöl.) A stalk or peduncle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The
stalk of aleaf , attaching theblade to thestem . - noun entomology A narrow or constricted
segment of the body of aninsect . Used especially to refer to themetasomal segment ofHymenoptera such as wasps. - noun entomology The stalk at the base of the nest of the paper wasp.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Head blue in front, sides of the face cupreous-purple; mouth, antennæ, and tarsi black; arista snow-white; thorax with two almost contiguous darker stripes; abdomen æneous green, with the exception of the petiole, which is very thick; wings slightly greyish, costal half black; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various
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The petiole is a stalk that attaches a leaf blade to the stem.
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A petiole is a stalk that attaches a leaf blade to the plant stem.
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A petiole is a stalk that attaches a leaf blade to the plant stem.
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(A petiole is a leaf-stalk joining the leaf to the plant stem).
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The petiole is a stalk that attaches a leaf blade to the stem.
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Porch,349) The midrib of a fern leaf is called petiole, and the leaflet, a blade.
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Porch,349) The midrib of a fern leaf is called petiole, and the leaflet, a blade.
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Porch,349) The midrib of a fern leaf is called petiole, and the leaflet, a blade.
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Porch,349) The midrib of a fern leaf is called petiole, and the leaflet, a blade.
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