单词 | petiole |
释义 | petiolen. 1. Botany. The stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem of a plant. Also: the stalk of a leaflet (= petiolule n.) (rare). Cf. petiolus n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > petiole or leaf-stalk > [noun] footstalk1562 leaf stalka1671 petiolus1707 petiole1753 petiolule1792 subpetiole1827 stalklet1835 phyllodium1840 phyllode1848 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Petiole, petiolum, among botanists, expresses that stalk which supports the leaves,..as the peduncle does the fructifications. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxiv. 345 Dwarf Mallow has..orbiculate leaves hollowed next the petiole. 1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. 100 The petiole or leaf-stalk, is very frequently called the foot-stalk of the leaf; and again, the peduncle or flower-stalk of the flower, is also called the foot-stalk of the flower. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 250 Leaves,..gradually narrowed into long winged petioles. 1914 F. E. Fritsch & E. J. Salisbury Introd. Study Plants i. 5 In the leaf two parts can usually be distinguished, the leaf-stalk or petiole..and the flat part of the leaf, the blade or lamina. 1947 D. H. Robinson Leguminous Forage Plants (ed. 2) i. 1 The leaves are always arranged alternately on the stem, and are made up of a common leaf-stalk and three or more leaflets, each with its own stalk or petiole. 1986 J. A. Samson Trop. Fruits (ed. 2) v. 75 In grapefruit and shaddock the petiole wings touch or partly overlap the leaf blade, which is not the case in sour orange. 2001 Exotic & Greenhouse Gardening June 7/2 It is distinguished from A. crystallinum in that the leaves are paler green, have squarer upper lobes and square petioles. 2. Zoology and Anatomy. A slender stalk-like part of an animal's body, as the eyestalk of some crustaceans, the constricted segment connecting the abdomen and thorax in hymenopterans, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > slender or pointed part > stalk-like pedicle1703 peduncle1717 petiole1783 stipes1826 petiolus1890 stipe1891 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > member of > parts of > eye-stalk pedicle1703 peduncle1763 petiole1783 pedicel1826 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > waist waist1712 petiole1856–8 1783 Philos. Trans. 1782 (Royal Soc.) 72 441 (note) Crabs, whose eyes are placed on petioles, or stalks, and are moveable. 1856–8 W. Clark tr. J. van der Hoeven Handbk. Zool. I. 243 Filaments of branchiæ numerous, placed on a petiole twisted spirally. 1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xii. 184 The abdomen of the bee is composed of six visible segments in the female and seven in the male and is united to the propodeum by a narrow constriction called the petiole. 1976 Laryngoscope 86 635 Supraglottic laryngectomy is contraindicated if the biopsy does show high-grade differentiation and if the tumor is situated near the petiole [of the epiglottis]. 1991 Whole Earth Rev. Summer 93/2 The gaster..is attached to the trunk low down by a slender petiole. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1753 |
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