Petiole Definition

pĕtē-ōl
petioles
noun
petioles

Leafstalk.

Webster's New World
The stalk by which a leaf is attached to a stem.
American Heritage
A slender, stalklike part, as that connecting the thorax and abdomen in certain insects.
American Heritage Medicine

Peduncle.

Webster's New World

(entomology) A narrow or constricted segment of the body of an insect. Used especially to refer to the metasomal segment of Hymenoptera such as wasps.

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Noun

Singular:
petiole
Plural:
petioles

Origin of Petiole

  • Latin petiolus variant of peciolus little foot, fruit stalk probably from pediciolus diminutive of pediculus pedicel

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French pétiole, and its source, Latin petiolus (“little foot"), diminuitive form of pes.

    From Wiktionary

Petiole Sentence Examples

  • The petiole varies in length, being usually shorter than the lamina, but sometimes much longer.

  • This tissue remains living and is usually formed quiti early, just below the epidermis, where it provides the first periphera support for a still growing stem or petiole.

  • In general, the petiole is more or less rounded in its form, the upper surface being flattened or grooved.

  • In the larger veins of the leaf especially in the midrib, in the petiole, and in the young stem, a1 extremely frequent type of mechanical tissue is collenchyma.

  • A layer of cork is regularly formed in most Phanerogams across the base of the petiole before leaf fall, so as to cover the wound caused by the separation of the leaf from the stem.

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