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-- Moving plant (Bot.), a leguminous plant (Desmodium gyrans); -- so called because its leaflets have a distinct automatic motion.

Having many pairs of leaflets.

sitions or make curvatures under the influence of darkness. It is well illustrated in the leaflets of clover and other leguminous plants.

Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers. Gray.

Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.

to a subordinate portion; as, a compound umbel is made up of a several partial umbels; a leaflet is often supported by a partial petiole. Partial differentials, Partial differential coefficients, Partial differentiation, etc. (of a function of two or more variables), the differentials, differential coefficients, diffe…

extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.

Having five leaves or leaflets.

A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.

A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.

Consisting of several leaflets, or separate portions, arranged on each side of a common petiole, as the leaves of a rosebush, a hickory, or an ash. See Abruptly pinnate, and Illust., under Abruptly.

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

Having several or many leaflets.

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

Pinnate, with four pairs of leaflets; as, a quadrijugous leaf.

Growing in sets of five; -- said especially of leaves composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole.

Having five leaflets. Gray.

Having five leaves or leaflets. Gray.

A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust. under Axillary.

The stipule of a leaflet. Gray.