Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That part of a leaf, or rather of its stalk or petiole, which remains within the trunk or stem after the leaf has fallen: used chiefly of fossil trunks, as of Lepidodendron, Cycadeoidea, etc.
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Examples
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The malonate was fed at the leaf-base where an axillary bud was evident.
Chapter 7 1991
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The bract-base is decurrent, like the leaf-base of Picea fig. 6.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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The bract-base is non-decurrent, like the leaf-base of Abies fig. 5. 2.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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