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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The stalk of a leaflet in a compound leaf.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a little or partial petiole, such as belong to the leaflets of compound leaves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The
petiole of apinna orpinnule .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the stalk of a leaflet
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Examples
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The latter observer considers that the funiculus, with the integuments, is the equivalent of a leaflet, the petiolule or midrib of which answers to the funiculus, and its hollow expansion to the integument.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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