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  • And a specialized variety of sweet fennel, var. azoricum, develops the enlarged leaf-stalk bases of bulb or Florence fennel, which is used as an aromatic vegetable.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • And a specialized variety of sweet fennel, var. azoricum, develops the enlarged leaf-stalk bases of bulb or Florence fennel, which is used as an aromatic vegetable.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Its enlarged leaf-stalk bases form a tight, bulb-like cluster.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • Its enlarged leaf-stalk bases form a tight, bulb-like cluster.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

  • The stems and the base of the leaf-stalk are coated with, glaucous bloom, like that of a ripe plum.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • I say that, because you will first reach a middle next the subject, and a premiss asserting it of the whole subject, and after that a middle-the coagulation of sap or something of the sort-proving the connexion of the first middle with the major: but it is the coagulation of sap at the junction of leaf-stalk and stem which defines deciduous.

    Posterior Analytics Aristotle 2002

  • The leaf-stalk of tania is a direct continuation of the midrib.

    Chapter 7 1977

  • The leaf-stalk is thin, flexible and has no sheath.

    Chapter 7 1977

  • The leaf-stalk is attached to the edge of the leaf at the middle of the notch.

    Chapter 7 1977

  • The leaf-stalk is not a continuation of the midrib, as with tania

    Chapter 7 1977

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