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Definition of Prophyll
1. Noun. A plant structure resembling a leaf.
Definition of Prophyll
1. Noun. (botany) The frequently specialised or reduced leaf produced at the first node of a new shoot. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prophyll
1. a small leaf on the axis of a flower [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prophyll
Literary usage of Prophyll
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"I and II, portions of shoot with leaves and axillary shoots; p, prophyll ...
There is no doubt, however, in many Monocotyledones that the prophyll is formed ..."
2. Proceedings of the Second Temperate Rice Conference by B Hardy, J E Hill (2002)
"'The prophyll leaf is the first leaf to emerge, but it lacks a blade and consists
only of the ... (collar) Leaf sheath prophyll leaf Coleoptile Radicle Fig. ..."
3. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1902)
"The Boiled inward, very single median vas- )f-eral veins, which F :prophyll with
ovules, o scction of young ovule (embryo-sac). C, feia (pollen-sacs), ..."
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