cataphyll
noun
a simplified leaf form, as a bud scale or a scale on a cotyledon or rhizome.
cataphyllary
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a word derived from
cataphyll.
Example Sentences
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Of this latter nature are the "cataphyllary" leaves which invest the root stocks of so many perennial plants, the perulæ of leaf-buds, or the paleæ on the common receptacle of composite flowers.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
