Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, resembling or belong ing to a phyllodium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having phyllodia; relating to phyllodia.
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- adjective botany Having or relating to
phyllodia .
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Examples
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Acclimatization and utilization of phyllodineous acacias from Australia in SenegaL pp. 361-373.
Chapter 10 1996
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HAMEL, O. (1980) Acclimatization and utilization of phyllodineous acacias from Australia in Senegal.
Chapter 2 1994
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If the blade of the leaf disappears entirely, we have then an analogous condition to that of the phyllodineous acacias.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Entire absence of the stalk of the leaf occurs normally in sessile leaves; on the other hand the blade of the leaf is only occasionally developed in the phyllodineous Acacias, in some species of _Oxalis_,
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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We occasionally though rarely see something of the same kind in plants; thus the first leaves of the ulex or furze, and the first leaves of the phyllodineous æacias, are pinnate or divided like the ordinary leaves of the Leguminosæ.
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We occasionally though rarely see something of this kind in plants: thus the embryonic leaves of the ulex or furze, and the first leaves of the phyllodineous acaceas, are pinnate or divided like the ordinary leaves of the leguminosae.
On the Origin of Species~ Chapter 13 (historical) Charles Darwin 1859
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We occasionally though rarely see something of this kind in plants: thus the embryonic leaves of the ulex or furze, and the first leaves of the phyllodineous acaceas, are pinnate or divided like the ordinary leaves of the leguminosae.
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We occasionally though rarely see something of this kind in plants: thus the embryonic leaves of the ulex or furze, and the first leaves of the phyllodineous acaceas, are pinnate or divided like the ordinary leaves of the leguminosæ.
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) Charles Darwin 1845
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We occasionally though rarely see something of this kind in plants: thus the embryonic leaves of the ulex or furze, and the first leaves of the phyllodineous acaceas, are pinnate or divided like the ordinary leaves of the leguminosae.
On the origin of species Charles Darwin 1845
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