phyllodium
Americannoun
PLURAL
phyllodiaEtymology
Origin of phyllodium
1840–50; < New Latin, equivalent to Greek phyllṓd ( ēs ) leaflike ( phyllode ) + New Latin -ium -ium
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Phyllodium, fi-lō′di-um, n. a petiole which usurps the function of a leaf-blade.—adj.
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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.
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Cassia phyllodinea is one of the very few species of the genus, which, like the far greater part of New Holland Acaciae lose their compound leaves, and are reduced to the footstalk, or phyllodium, as it is then called, and which generally becomes foliaceous by vertical compression and dilatation.
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To this species may perhaps be referred Cassia linearis of Cunningham MS., discovered by him in 1817, but which appears to differ in having a single prominent gland about the middle of its phyllodium: Bentham's plant being entirely eglandular.
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