Petiole (noun)
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(Botany) the slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem; leafstalk.
1745–55; New Latin petiolus leafstalk, special use of Latin petiolus, scribal variant of peciolus, probably for *pediciolus, diminutive of pediculus
Example sentences
“The leaves had all been removed, cut off at the petiole.”
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