petiole

[ pet-ee-ohl ]

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noun

Botany. the slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem; leafstalk.
Zoology. a stalk or peduncle, as that connecting the abdomen and thorax in wasps.

Origin of petiole

1745–55; <New Latin petiolus leafstalk, special use of Latin petiolus, scribal variant of peciolus, probably for *pediciolus, diminutive of pediculuspedicle

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How to use petiole in a sentence

All men who attended had a head-dress made of the leaf petiole of the betel tree and the red leaves of the dongola plant.
The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon From Ifugao to Kalinga | Cornelis De Witt Willcox
The petiole is long, and the auricles distant from the lower laciniæ.
Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, Part III (the Text Being Chapters XXVIII-XXXIII of the London Edition, 1843, and the Appendix a Combination of the Appendices of the London and German [Coblentz, 1839] Editions) | Maximilian, Prinz von Wied
The top, as the tip of a bud or the end of a leaf which is opposite the petiole.
Michigan Trees | Charles Herbert Otis
Leaf-like appendages on either side of a leaf at the base of the petiole.
Michigan Trees | Charles Herbert Otis
In the petiole of Mimosa pudica the velocity may be as high as 30 mm.
Life Movements in Plants | Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose

British Dictionary definitions for petiole

petiole

/ (ˈpɛtɪˌəʊl) /

noun

the stalk by which a leaf is attached to the rest of the plant
zoology a slender stalk or stem, such as the connection between the thorax and abdomen of ants

Origin of petiole

C18: via French from Latin petiolus little foot, from pēs foot

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Scientific definitions for petiole

petiole

[ pĕt′ē-ōl′ ]

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