petiolate

American  

[pet-ee-uh-leyt] / ˈpɛt i əˌleɪt /

Often petiolated

adjective

Botany, Zoology.

1. having a petiole or peduncle.

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petiolate British  

/ ˈpɛtɪəˌleɪt /

adjective

1. (of a plant or leaf) having a leafstalk Compare sessile

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Other Word Forms

• subpetiolate adjective
• subpetiolated adjective

Etymology

Origin of petiolate

From the New Latin word petiolātus, dating back to 1745–55. See petiole, -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Somewhat leafy, 2–3° high, hairy below; leaves obovate-oblong, narrowed below, the radical petiolate, rarely purplish-veiny; heads 20–40-flowered in a very open cymose panicle, the slender inflorescence commonly whitish-tomentulose and sparingly glandular-hispid.—Open woods and clearings; R. I. to western N. Y., and southward.—Var. spathulàtum, Gray, a mountain form with leaves all or mainly radical and very hairy.

From Project Gutenberg

Utricle globose, indehiscent.—Densely stellate-tomentose low herbs or woody at base, with opposite petiolate leaves and very small flowers solitary or few in the axils.

From Project Gutenberg

Hirsute-tomentose or villous, 2–3° high, very leafy; leaves crenate, the radical oblong, petiolate, the cauline oblong-cordate to subcordate-lanceolate, the upper closely sessile; heads somewhat cymose, ½´ broad.—S. W. Mo. to La. and Tex.

From Project Gutenberg

Annuals; leaves mostly alternate, petiolate; receptacle flat; disk brownish.

From Project Gutenberg

Style-tips abruptly cuspidate, hispid; involucres nearly equal; achenes roundish, winged, incurved, often papillose and with a callus inside at base and apex; pappus 2 small teeth or none; ray mostly yellow and palmately lobed; perennials, with long-pedunculate heads; lower leaves petiolate.

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