(thing) by BioTech Thu Aug 15 2002 at 22:22:41
A leaf whose blade is much reduced or absent, and whose petiole and rachis have assumed the functions of the whole leaf. Compare cladode.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:59:08

Phyl"lode (?), n. Bot.

Same as Phyllodium.

 

© Webster 1913.

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