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Definition of Scale leaf
1. Noun. A specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scale Leaf
Literary usage of Scale leaf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"in the normal course of development have formed bud-scales, develop into foliage-
have already advanced to a greater or less extent towards the scale-leaf ..."
2. Comparative Anatomy of the Vegetative Organs of the Phanerogams and Ferns by Anton Bary (1884)
"The internode between the latter and the next following scale leaf is elongated (as
much as 4 feet), the others are short. The elongated internode (Fig. ..."
3. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1900)
"We speak of the scale-leaf as a transformation of the foliage- leaf, because in
the juvenile condition we often find it to be possessed of parts which ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1856)
"In armies they career and gleam, Some with rich plumes, and helms that beam ;
Some with the purple glittering scale, Leaf upon leaf, like shirt of mail. ..."
5. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"... in the axil of a scale-leaf, so that this may consist of two inter- nodes ;
or else the flower-stalk may belong to an accessory axillary bud, ..."
6. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"... reveals its character farther by bearing a flower on the middle of one face,
in the axil of a scale-leaf, so that this may consist of two inter- nodes ..."
7. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"Here also it can be plainly seen that the scale - leaf affords protection only
as long as it is necessary, ie the scale stretches up from the lowest portion ..."
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