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Definition of Parted leaf
1. Noun. A leaf having margins incised almost to the base so as to create distinct divisions or lobes.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parted Leaf
Literary usage of Parted leaf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Introduction to Structural and Systematic Botany and Vegetable Physiology by Asa Gray (1875)
"Thus, a. palmately three-parted leaf is one of the radiated-veined kind, which
is divided almost to the base into three segments (Fig. ..."
2. Elements of Botany: Or, Outlines of the Natural History of Vegetables by Benjamin Smith Barton (1804)
"... folium partitum, or parted leaf; a leaf divided almost down to the base : (according
to the number of the divisions, the parted leaf is called bipartite ..."
3. Stages in the Development of Sium Cicutaefolium by George Harrison Shull (1905)
"... logical termination of a line of development from the 3-parted leaf through
the half 3-parted, but the pinnate leaf with one pair of lateral leaflets, ..."
4. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"... and three-divided, or, in Latin form, trilobate, trifid, tripartite, and
trisect or trisected leaf. Fig. 16G is a palmately ^-parted leaf; Fig. ..."
5. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"... represent respectively a pinnately lobed, pinnately cleft, and pinnately parted
leaf, while the accompanying leaf of Celandine, Fig. ..."
6. Botany, Developmental and Descriptive by William Mansfield (1922)
"... as in the pinnately parted leaf of wild lettuce, or more than half way to the
petiole, as in the palmately parted leaf of wild geranium; it is divided ..."
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