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Definition of Footstalk
1. n. The stalk of a leaf or of flower; a petiole, pedicel, or reduncle.
Definition of Footstalk
1. Noun. (botany) A stalk (such as a peduncle or pedicel) that supports another structure ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Footstalk
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Medical Definition of Footstalk
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Literary usage of Footstalk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"Ernst, who attributes the " rain " to secretion from glands on the footstalk of
the leaf on which drops oi liquid are found, which are rapidly renewed on ..."
2. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed by John Sims (1833)
"... solitary or sometimes two together, small, and upon a very short footstalk.
Calyx cup-shaped or nearly ..."
3. Exotic Flora: Containing Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare Or Otherwise ...by Sir William Jackson Hooker by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1823)
"... elastic pedicel, which is bent under, and lies parallel with it Germen oblong,
striated, slender, tapering into a rather long filiform footstalk. ..."
4. Pomologia Britannica: Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Most Important by John Lindley (1841)
"... with a deep cavity for the footstalk, projecting more on one side of the suture
than on the other. SKIN moderately downy, of a uniform dark red next the ..."
5. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"... the apex truncate and quite entire, scarcely exceeding the footstalk in length.
Stamens numerous, white, inserted in spiral lines on a conical torus. ..."
6. The Annals of Horticulture (1849)
"... they are connected with the branches by means of a short thick downy footstalk.
The flowers grow in extra-axillary umbels on long pendent peduncles, ..."
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