Petiole

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Botany The stalk by which a leaf is attached to a stem. Also called leafstalk.
  • n. Zoology A slender, stalklike part, as that connecting the thorax and abdomen in certain insects.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem.
  • n. A narrow or constricted segment of the body of an insect. Used especially to refer to the metasomal segment of Hymenoptera such as wasps.
  • n. The stalk at the base of the nest of the paper wasp.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of leaf.
  • n. A stalk or peduncle.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany, a leafstalk; the stalk or support by which the blade or limb of a leaf is attached to the stem.
  • n. In entomology, the slender sclerite or sclerites by which the abdomen of many insects is united to the thorax.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    stalk    stem   
    Variant
    leaf   
    Hyponym
    phyllode   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    leafstalk   
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