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Definition of Phylloid
1. a. Resembling a leaf.
Definition of Phylloid
1. Adjective. Resembling a leaf. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Phylloid
1. a leaflike plant part [n -S]
Medical Definition of Phylloid
1. Resembling a leaf. Origin: Phyllo-. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phylloid
Literary usage of Phylloid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mapoteca Geologica Americana, a Catalogue of Geological Maps of America ...by Jules Marcou by Jules Marcou (1885)
"... 352 X.—New phylloid crustacean 354 BULLETIN NO. 11. Plate I.—Sketch map of
the Great Basin 357 II. ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"But admitting them to be phylloid shoots, it confirms our theory in a strong degree.
We then see a plant loaded with branchlets; and so great is the ..."
3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1869)
"469) calls "secondary leaves," are but phylloid shoots, but I have failed to find
any specific reference to the fact in botanical works. ..."
4. Mineral Physiology and Physiography: A Second Series of Chemical and by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1891)
"While a mineral having the composition assigned to kaolin appears .as a phylloid,
and while Johnson and Blake, from their microscopic examinations, ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... leaf as a ' phylloid,' the leaf of the fern as a true leaf, ... on which the '
phylloid ' appendages had become abortive. ..."
6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1869)
"... more adnate with the stem, and after a few inches of such growth the branchlets
in the shape of phylloid shoots or fascicles of " pine needles " appear. ..."
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