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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resembling a leaf; leaflike.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In algæ and in some Characeæ and Bryophyta, an appendage of the thallus, morphologically analogous to the leaf of higher plants, but less differentiated. Compare
rhizoid . - Leaf-like; foliaceous. Also
phylloideous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling a leaf.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling a
leaf .
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Very frequently, when the coat of the ovule is phylloid, as before described, the nucleus is altogether wanting, though sometimes it is present as a small cellular papilla; very rarely is it to be found in its perfect state.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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