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petiolate

American  
[pet-ee-uh-leyt] / ˈpɛt i əˌleɪt /
Often petiolated

adjective

Botany, Zoology.
  1. having a petiole or peduncle.


petiolate British  
/ ˈpɛtɪəˌleɪt /

adjective

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of petiolate

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

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Leaves 6–7′ long by 5′ broad, alternate, petiolate, entire, glabrous, half-ovate.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

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

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

Leaves alternate, petiolate, rhomboid-oval or lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved, entire or slightly dentate, upper surface glabrous, lower surface covered with woolly hairs and powdery red glands.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

But they occasionally become lobed, as in the walnut and the lime; or petiolate, as in Geranium molle; or auriculate, as in the ash.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

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 The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

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