phyllodium
Americannoun
plural
phyllodiaEtymology
Origin of phyllodium
1840–50; < New Latin, equivalent to Greek phyllṓd ( ēs ) leaflike ( see phyllode) + New Latin -ium -ium
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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.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
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