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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having a petiole.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, having a petiole: as, a petiolate leaf.
  • In zoology and anatomy, stalked as if petiolate; having a footstalk, peduncle, or petiole like that of a leaf; specifically, in entomology, pertaining to the Petiolata, or having their characters. See cuts under Eucharinæ and Eumenes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot. & Zoöl.) Having a stalk or petiole

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective petiolated

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