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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a petiole.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having a petiole: as, a petiolate leaf.
- In zoology and anatomy, stalked as if petiolate; having a footstalk, peduncle, or petiole like that of a leaf; specifically, in entomology, pertaining to the Petiolata, or having their characters. See cuts under
Eucharinæ and Eumenes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot. & Zoöl.) Having a stalk or petiole
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- adjective
petiolated
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Examples
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LEAVES: Simple, long petiolate, alternate, usually with an ovate lamina to 8 cm long, veins conspicuous underneath.
Chapter 7 1999
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The leaves are petiolate, often cordate, with strongly marked reticulate veining (unusual for a monocotyledon), sometimes lobed, occasionally palmately compound.
Chapter 37 1987
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The _leaf-blade_ is linear-lanceolate, flat, acuminate, narrowed towards the base which may be acute, subcordate or rarely even petiolate, glabrous or sparsely hairy above and glaucous beneath, 4 to 10 inches long and 1/4 to 1 inch broad.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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No such thing as a petiolate leaf occurs in acrogens, all are attached by
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Apocrita: = petiolate, q.v. Apodal: with single, simple tubercles instead of feet, in larvae; without feet = apodous.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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The whole four leaves of this plant are petiolate, but one pair is perhaps always unequal, one occasionally abortive, I look upon this as a proof that the so-called stipulae of Stellatae are real leaves.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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_Actæa spicata_, as observed by Fresenius, the petals were replaced by true petiolate, palminerved, lobed leaves, the stamens and pistils being abortive.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The leaves are distantly arranged on the creeping stems, ½in. long, oval, roundly toothed and undulated, fleshy, somewhat glaucous and petiolate.
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Page view page image: petiolate, plane, scattered nearly circular, with it's margin cut with accute angular incissures of an inch in length and from six to 8 in number the accute angular points formed by which incissures are crenate, or cut
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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The leaves are petiolate, the footstalk small short and oppressed;
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904
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