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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A leaf or a plant part that evolved from a leaf.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the leaf in all its modifications; foliage. Also
phylloma .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A foliar part of a plant; any organ homologous with a leaf, or produced by metamorphosis of a leaf.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A
foliar part of aplant ; anyorgan homologous with aleaf , or produced bymetamorphosis of a leaf.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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