Definitions for petioles

petioles pet·i·ole

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

Petioles is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 339 anagrams from letters in petioles (eeilopst).

Definitions for petioles

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 petioles

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

Examples for petioles

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for petioles
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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