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petiole
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun petiole has 1 sense
- petiole(n = noun.plant) leafstalk - the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf; Array is a kind of stalk, stem
has particulars: phyllode
CIDE DICTIONARY
petiole, n. [F. pétiole, fr. L. petiolus a little foot, a fruit stalk; cf. pes, pedis, a foot.].
- A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf. [1913 Webster]
- A stalk or peduncle. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
petiole, n. the slender stalk joining a leaf to a stem.
Derivative
petiolar adj. petiolate adj.
Etymology
F p{eacute}tiole f. L petiolus little foot, stalk
ROGET THESAURUS
petiole
Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.
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