petiolate
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of petiolate
From the New Latin word petiolātus, dating back to 1745–55. See petiole, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Cotyledons incumbent.—Biennial or perennial, with serrate sessile or petiolate leaves, and large purple flowers.
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
Pseudosessile: those petiolate Hymenoptera, in which the abdomen is so close to the thorax as to seem sessile.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
Botanical Description.—A tree 20–30 meters high, leaves alternate, persistent, petiolate, no stipules, oblong, dentate, acuminate, pinnately nerved.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
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
Botanical Description.—A small tree with leaves alternate, simple, entire, irregularly nerved or veined at the base, petiolate.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
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