Definition of Phyllodial

1. Adjective. Having a phyllode.

Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Partainyms: Phyllode
Derivative terms: Phyllode

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phyllodial

phyllobranchia
phyllobranchiae
phylloclad
phylloclades
phyllocladia
phyllocladium
phyllocyanin
phyllocyanine
phyllocyst
phyllocysts
phyllode
phyllodes
phyllodes tumour
phyllodia
phyllodial (current term)
phyllodies
phyllodineous
phyllodium
phyllodulcin
phyllody
phylloid
phylloids
phyllolepid
phyllolepids
phyllomania
phyllome
phyllomes
phyllomic
phyllomorphosis

Literary usage of Phyllodial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Synoptical Flora of North America by Asa Gray (1897)
"... and soon ascending or erect hood; the wing a narrow margin or in the phyllodial leaves (with reduced abortive tube) linear-lanceolate. S. rubra, WALT. ..."

2. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1903)
"4, the same, submersed state, showing phyllodial leaves; fig. 5, the same, emersed state, showing usual leaf-form. Fig. ..."

3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Low densely branched shrubs with spine-like phyllodial leaves. (An ancient name, used by Pliny for some not certainly identified plant.) 1. ..."

4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"Shrubs or trees (mostly armed), with bipinnate or (in certain Australian species) vertically expanded phyllodial leaves. (Ancient Greek name of an Egyptian ..."

5. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1906)
"About 2 phyllodial petioles precede these, with similar sheathing base and with slightly developed lamina. Throughout the summer the 3 radicals remain ..."

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