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Definition of Compound leaf
1. Noun. A leaf composed of a number of leaflets on a common stalk.
Specialized synonyms: Trifoliolate Leaf, Quinquefoliate Leaf, Palmate Leaf, Pinnate Leaf, Decompound Leaf
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compound Leaf
Literary usage of Compound leaf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"The leaflets of a compound leaf being homologous with the lobes or segments of
a simple leaf, indeed being such segments fully isolated, the two sorts fall ..."
2. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1869)
"A compound leaf is a simple leaf, or a multiple of them, attached to a stalk ...
The leaves of a compound leaf are called leaflets: they are generally ..."
3. Class Book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"The following pinnate-veined forms, approaching the compound leaf, depend less
upon the proportion of the ISO 1"! 1SS 183 Forms of leaves. ..."
4. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"The leaflets of a compound leaf being homologous with the lobes or ... A pin-
nately veined simple leaf is the homologue of one kind of compound leaf; ..."
5. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"A compound leaf is one which has its blade in entirely separate parts, ...
as a divided simple leaf, or a compound leaf, according to the circumstances. ..."
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