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Of or pertaining to petiole, or proceeding from it; as, a petiolar tendril; growing or supported upon a petiole; as, a petiolar gland; a petiolar bud.

Having a stalk or petiole; as, a petioleate leaf; the petiolated abdomen of certain Hymenoptera.

A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.

A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.

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.

h, poison dogwood, and poison elder. It has pinnate leaves on graceful and slender common petioles, and usually grows in swampy places. Both this plant and the poison ivy (Rhus Toxicodendron) have clusters of smooth greenish white berries, while the red-fruited species of this genus are harmless. The tree (Rhus vernici…

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

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

erves; -- said of a leaf with five nearly equal nerves or ribs rising from the end of the petiole.

Having the principal veins radiating, or diverging, from the apex of the petiole; -- said of such leaves as those of the grapevine, most maples, and the castor-oil plant.

rownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns. Gray.

Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.

The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.

ranch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.

Embracing the stem with its base; amplexicaul; as a leaf or petiole.

The stalk or petiole of a frond, as of a fern.

An appendage at the base of petioles or leaves, usually somewhat resembling a small leaf in texture and appearance.

Concealed within the base of the petiole, as the leaf buds of the plane tree.

Inserted into the stem above the leaf, petiole, or axil, as a peduncle or flower.

Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three- sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.