Definitions for petiole

petiole pet·i·ole

Spelling: [pet-ee-ohl]
IPA: /ˈpɛt iˌoʊl/

Petiole is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 141 anagrams from letters in petiole (eeilopt).

Definitions for petiole

noun

  1. Botany. the slender stalk by which a leaf is attached to the stem; leafstalk.
  2. Zoology. a stalk or peduncle, as that connecting the abdomen and thorax in wasps.

Origin of petiole

1745-55; New Latin petiolus leafstalk, special use of Latin petiolus, scribal variant of peciolus, probably for *pediciolus, diminutive of pediculus pedicle

Examples for petiole

Metapodeon: the abdomen behind the podeon or petiole in Hymenoptera.

In the petiole of Mimosa, the velocity in summer is as high as 30 mm.

Some, however, have no petiole, but the blade is in direct contact with the stem.

The top, as the tip of a bud or the end of a leaf which is opposite the petiole.

Such a petiole is illustrated in fig. 79, with its V-shaped fernlike stele.

The point of each cutting should contain a portion of the petiole.

Leaf-like appendages on either side of a leaf at the base of the petiole.

The petiole is long, and the auricles distant from the lower laciniæ.

Notice, too, that the leaves have a very short stem or petiole.

They are usually on the petiole at the base of the leaf but are sometimes on the leaf itself.

Word Value for petiole
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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