phyllodium

American  

[fi-loh-dee-uhm] / fɪˈloʊ di əm /

noun

• phyllodia
  plural

1. phyllode.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• phyllodia
  plural

Etymology

Origin of phyllodium

1840–50; < New Latin, equivalent to Greek phyllṓd ( ēs ) leaflike ( see phyllode) + New Latin -ium -ium

Example Sentences

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phyllodium phyllodia

Martins proposes to apply the word 'cladodium' to such expansions, just as the term phyllodium is applied to the similar dilatation of the leaf-stalks.

From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters

A dwarf Acacia, with rhomboid downy phyllodia, an inch long, grew between the rocks.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt

An Acacia with very large falcate, glaucous phyllodia, and the Euphorbiaceous Severn-tree, were very plentiful; and Crinum grew in thousands on the sandy flats.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt

Leighton, that the fluid so abundantly secreted by glands on the phyllodia of the Australian Acacia magnifica, which stand near the flowers, is connected with their fertilisation.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

So also the leaves of Boltonia, of Wild Lettuce, and of a vast number of Australian Myrtaceous shrubs and trees, which much resemble the phyllodia of the Acacias of the same country.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray

A low shrubby Acacia with sigmoid phyllodia was frequent on the hills.

From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt