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Definition of Pedate leaf
1. Noun. A leaf having the radiating lobes each deeply cleft or divided.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedate Leaf
Literary usage of Pedate leaf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"In compound leaves the leaflets may arise one from another on each side of a
median lobe, as in the pedate leaf of Hellebore, or may radiate in palmate ..."
2. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"Leaf of a young Pern, a pedate leaf is frequently pinnate. midrib; » the large
lower lateral veins; ..."
3. Leaves and Flowers, Or, Object Lessons in Botany: With a Flora : Prepared by Alphonso Wood (1891)
"42 represents a pedate leaf of a Passion-flower. Observe its palmate venation,
each of its veins bearing a seg- ... pedate leaf of Passion-flower. Fig. 48. ..."
4. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1890)
"... connate—all derived from U ; с. pedate leaf, its branching represented dia-
... as in the pedate leaf of Hellebore, or may radiate in palmate fashion ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1876)
"If we cut it down between the chief ribs, we shall have a pedate leaf like that
of the dragon root; or if we fill up the space between the leaflets of ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"One pedate leaf was found (Fig. 12c1) together with several forms like that in Fig.
12e. These suggest that leaflets cut off from the basal pair may be ..."
7. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants by William Withering, William Macgillivray (1837)
"pedate leaf. Fig. 77. Pinnate Leaf with a terminal leaflet; also oppositely
pinnate, and pinnate in a lyrate manner. Fig. 79. ..."
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