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One of the small divisions of a decompound frond or leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.

ng, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though consisting sometimes only of a single leafy expansion, or a series of cellules, or even a single cellule.

Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.

Having several leaves; -- used especially when several leaves or leaflets appear where normally there should be only one.

Plaited; folded like a fan; as, a plicate leaf. -- Pli"cate*ly, adv.

or other párts, arranged along an axis like a feather; feathery; plumelike; as, a plumose leaf; plumose tentacles.

Having several or many leaflets.

poy`s, podo`s, foot; as, decapod, an animal having ten feet; phyllopod, an animal having leaflike feet; myriapod, hexapod.

Having thin, flat, leaflike locomotive organs.

covered roundish points, called sori, scattered over the inferior surface of the frond or leaf. There are numerous species.

istinct subordinate parts, which, however, not being jointed to the petiole, are not true leaflets; -- said of leaves. Henslow.

ppy. See under Corn. -- Horn, or Horned, poppy. See under Horn. -- Poppy bee (Zoöl.), a leaf-cutting bee (Anthocopa papaveris) which uses pieces cut from poppy petals for the lining of its cells; -- called also upholsterer bee. -- Prickly poppy (Bot.), Argemone Mexicana, a yellow-flowered plant of the Poppy family,…

to several plants of the cactaceous genus Opuntia, American plants consisting of fleshy, leafless, usually flattened, and often prickly joints inserted upon each other. The sessile flowers have many petals and numerous stamens. The edible fruit is a large pear-shaped berry containing many flattish seeds. The common sp…

andidates, etc. See Caucus. -- Primary pinna (Bot.), one of those portions of a compound leaf or frond which branch off directly from the main rhachis or stem, whether simple or compounded. -- Primary planets. (Astron.) See the Note under Planet. -- Primary qualities of bodies, such are essential to and inseparable…

Originally or earliest formed in the growth of an individual or organ; as, a primordial leaf; a primordial cell. Primordial utricle (Bot.), the interior lining of a young vegetable cell.

to prune; to adorn. [Obs.] Chaucer. The sprigs that did about it grow He proined from the leafy arms. Chapman.

moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.

The way in which a leaf is sometimes folded in the bud.

vegetationis Etym: [L., point of vegetation] (Bot.), the terminal cell of a stem, or of a leaf bud, from which new growth originates.

Covered with pustulelike prominences; pustular; pustulous; as, a pustulate leaf; a pustulate shell or coral.