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Definition of Petiolate
1. a. Having a stalk or petiole; as, a petioleate leaf; the petiolated abdomen of certain Hymenoptera.
Definition of Petiolate
1. Adjective. petiolated ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Petiolate
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Petiolate
1. Having a stem or pedicle. Synonym: petioled. Origin: L. Petiolus (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petiolate
Literary usage of Petiolate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In these the abdomen, instead of being petiolate, is sessile ; the female is
provided with a double aaw in the ..."
2. Flora scotica, or, A description of Scottish plants, arranged both according by William Jackson Hooker (1821)
"Leaves ovato-acuminate, petiolate, deeply serrated. Flowers whorled, yellow; -lower
lip orange and spotted. 9. BETONICA. HAB. Woods and dry banks, ..."
3. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn Jepson (1901)
"... 3 to 6 lines long, with revolute margins, sessile or short-petiolate, the
opposite pair mostly united by a somewhat mem- ..."
4. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... petiolate palmate and alter- calyx ; я tubular corolla, with a flve-lobed ' limb;
... petiolate ..."
5. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1833)
"DESCR. Stem climbing, shrubby, rounded, the branches downy. Leaves opposite,
petiolate, oblongo-lanceolate, acute, ..."
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