petiolus

In late Latin it is called 'petiolus,' the little foot; because the expanding piece that holds the grape, or olive, is a little like an animal's foot.

Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

Folia alterna, ovata passim ovalia, obtusa, sesquipollicem longa, utrinque velutina; petiolus teres basi vix crassiore apice curvato.

Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832

Cæterum pars ea quæ Spongiæ cautibus adhærent est tanquam folii petiolus, à quo veluti collum quoddam gracile incipit: quod deinde in latitudinem diffusum capitis globum facit.

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

Cum petiolus bifidus latere tantum interiore adneclit foliola plura.

The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ... 1793

On making a compreflion with a pair of pincers on the uni - verfal petiolus, between any two pair of leaves, thofe above the compreflcd part, or nearer the extremity of the petiolus, move fooner than thofe under it, or nearer the origin; and fre - quently the motion will extend upwards to the extreme leaf, whilft below it perhaps does not go farther than the neareft pair.

Philosophical transactions 1785

On flicking a pin into the univerfal petiolus at its origin, the leaf next it, which is always on the outer iide, moves firft; then the firfl: leaf on the oppofite fide, next the fecond leaf on the outer, and fo on.

Philosophical transactions 1785

By comprefling the univerfal petiolus near fhe place where a partial one comes out, the leaf moves in a few feconds, in the - fame manner as if you had touched the partial petiolus.

Philosophical transactions 1785

When, therefore, I wanted; to confine the motion to a fingle leaf, I either touched it fo as only to affed its own petiolus, or, without meddling with the leaf, touched the petiolus with any fmall-pointed body, as a p. ia or knife.

Philosophical transactions 1785

'petiolus;' when we want to write English, call it 'stalk,' meaning always fruit or flower stalk.

Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859