Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a petiole.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
- adj. petiolated
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot. & Zoöl.) Having a stalk or petiole
Examples
“LEAVES: Simple, long petiolate, alternate, usually with an ovate lamina to 8 cm long, veins conspicuous underneath.”
“The leaves are petiolate, often cordate, with strongly marked reticulate veining (unusual for a monocotyledon), sometimes lobed, occasionally palmately compound.”
“_Actæa spicata_, as observed by Fresenius, the petals were replaced by true petiolate, palminerved, lobed leaves, the stamens and pistils being abortive.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
“The _leaf-blade_ is linear-lanceolate, flat, acuminate, narrowed towards the base which may be acute, subcordate or rarely even petiolate, glabrous or sparsely hairy above and glaucous beneath, 4 to 10 inches long and 1/4 to 1 inch broad.”
“No such thing as a petiolate leaf occurs in acrogens, all are attached by”
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
“The whole four leaves of this plant are petiolate, but one pair is perhaps always unequal, one occasionally abortive, I look upon this as a proof that the so-called stipulae of Stellatae are real leaves.”
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
“The leaves are distantly arranged on the creeping stems, ½in. long, oval, roundly toothed and undulated, fleshy, somewhat glaucous and petiolate.”
“Apocrita: = petiolate, q.v. Apodal: with single, simple tubercles instead of feet, in larvae; without feet = apodous.”
“Page view page image: petiolate, plane, scattered nearly circular, with it's margin cut with accute angular incissures of an inch in length and from six to 8 in number the accute angular points formed by which incissures are crenate, or cut”
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
“The leaves are petiolate, the footstalk small short and oppressed;”
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
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Something I -ate
Words in which the "-ate" suffix is used to mean "having," "resembling," "-like."
roseate, acaudate, lyrate, pinnate, acerate, falcate, pedunculate, petiolate, oblate, tessellate, spatulate, fimbriate and 158 more...
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misc. plant morphology
the concise british flora in colour (w. keble martin) - glossary - edited, and to be added to
whorled, viviparous, vittae, viscid, villous, valvate, unarmed, umbellate, umbel, tubercle, triquetrous, trigonous and 135 more...
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Zoological Terms
Terms used in Zoology
papilionaceous, actinost, gressorial, exuviate, nitid, trochal, demiss, loculus, crebrity, limes, pachytrichous, pachydactyl and 319 more...
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Botanical Terms
Terms used in botany
contabescence, effloresce, foliate, acervate, nuciform, feracious, fructuous, bifarious, serotinous, sative, demiss, tardive and 168 more...
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Anatomical Terms
Anatomical terms
folliculus, follicle, tegmentum, labrum, margo, lacertus, ora, corporal, corpus, capital, caput, gula and 86 more...
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