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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The stalk of a leaflet in a compound leaf.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, a little or partial petiole, such as belong to the leaflets of compound leaves.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the stalk of a leaflet
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“The latter observer considers that the funiculus, with the integuments, is the equivalent of a leaflet, the petiolule or midrib of which answers to the funiculus, and its hollow expansion to the integument.”
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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