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Definition of Phyllodium
1. n. A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.
Definition of Phyllodium
1. Noun. (botany) A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Phyllodium
1. [n -DIA]
Medical Definition of Phyllodium
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Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Leaflike; leaf + form
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phyllodium
Literary usage of Phyllodium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"phyllodium, Desv. Shrubs with woody branches, ... phyllodium pulchellum, Desv.
Journ. Bot. iii. 123, t. 5, fig. 24; Benth. PI. Jungh.'217. ..."
2. Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken (1847)
"pletely resembles a pinnate leaf with a phyllodium, as we see it in the umbellate
plants, only it must be thought of as one so involuted, that the fine ..."
3. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"The expression phyllodium has been frequently used, in an indefinite and wrong
manner, for leaves which diverge from the forms in their alliance by being ..."
4. Contributions to the Tertiary Flora of Australia by Constantin Ettingshausen (1888)
"But there are so many peculiarities respecting formation and form of the phyllodium,
as well as the arrangement of leaves, that we have been compelled to ..."
5. Icones Plantarum, Or, Figures, with Brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks ...by William Jackson Hooker by William Jackson Hooker (1837)
"In the present species, were the two halves of the phyllodium equally large, ...
There is a small subulate stipule on each side the base of the phyllodium. ..."
6. The Chemist: A Monthly Journal of Chemical and Physical Science (1842)
"In such cases, the expanded petiole is termed a phyllodium, ... The phyllodium,
however, is not the only substitute provided by nature for supplying the ..."
7. Nereis Australis, Or Algae of the Southern Ocean: Being Figures and by William Henry Harvey (1847)
"From the primary phyllodium spring others, one to two inches long. ... Substance of
the stem cartilaginous, of phyllodium thickish membranous. ..."
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