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Definition of Petioles
1. petiole [n] - See also: petiole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petioles
Literary usage of Petioles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"petioles. — Attention has been called elsewhere to the chief advantage of ...
Short or broad petioles are of less significance in facilitating leaf display. ..."
2. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"petioles. — Attention has been called elsewhere to the chief advantage of ...
Short or broad petioles are of less significance in facilitating leaf display. ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"petioles 2 ft., greenish white, mottled purple ; blade sagittate, 18 in. long,
the basal lobes very long and erect, the upper surface green, with silvery or ..."
4. Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary, and Physiological: With by Lincoln Phelps (1846)
"branches and petioles glaucous and prickly; leaves ternate, oval, acuminate, sub-
lobate and doubly serrate, white-downy beneath; petioles terete; ..."
5. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1876)
"least on the petioles ; the cauline entire, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, clasping
by the sagittate base : petals 2 to 3 lines long, little exceeding the ..."
6. Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis: Containing Abridged by Robert Wight, George Arnott Walker Arnott (1834)
"187, the petioles are fully three inches in length, while the pedicels are not
longer than common. XIII. SIDA. Linn. ; Lam. ill. t../. 1, and t. S79. ..."
7. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"The usual cultivated species of Vigna are annual bean- like rambling vines with
3 rhomboid-ovate stalked Ifts., the lateral ones unequal-sided, the petioles ..."
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