Most insects consume tissue from the leaf blade were measured just past the twist on the side away only, leaving the leaf petioles unscathed.
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Petiole
//ˈpɛti.oʊl//
Synonyms for "petiole" (15 found)
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31 translations across 25 languages.
Breton
1 entries- lostig-delienn noun (stalk of a leaf)
Bulgarian
1 entries- дръжка на листо noun (stalk of a leaf)
Catalan
1 entries- pecíol noun (stalk of a leaf)
Dutch
1 entries- bladsteel noun (stalk of a leaf)
Esperanto
1 entries- petiolo noun (stalk of a leaf)
Finnish
2 entries- lehtikanta noun (stalk of a leaf)
- lehtiruoti noun (stalk of a leaf)
French
1 entries- pétiole noun (stalk of a leaf)
German
2 entries- Blattstiel noun (stalk of a leaf)
- Stängel noun (stalk of a leaf)
Hawaiian
2 entries- hā noun (stalk of a leaf)
- ʻau noun (stalk of a leaf)
Irish
1 entries- peitín noun (stalk of a leaf)
Korean
1 entries- 잎꼭지 noun (stalk of a leaf)
Malay
1 entries- tangkai noun (stalk of a leaf)
Māori
1 entries- tātārau noun (stalk of a leaf)
Occitan
1 entries- peciòl noun (stalk of a leaf)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- ذنب noun (stalk of a leaf)
Polish
1 entries- ogonek liścia noun (stalk of a leaf)
Portuguese
1 entries- pecíolo noun (stalk of a leaf)
Russian
1 entries- черешо́к noun (stalk of a leaf)
Spanish
2 entries- peciolo noun (stalk of a leaf)
- pecíolo noun (stalk of a leaf)
Tagalog
2 entries- dahuntangkay noun (stalk of a leaf)
- tangkay noun (stalk of a leaf)
Turkish
1 entries- yaprak sapı noun (stalk of a leaf)
Tày
1 entries- cản noun (stalk of a leaf)
Ukrainian
1 entries- черешо́к noun (stalk of a leaf)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cuống noun (stalk of a leaf)
Welsh
2 entries- deilgoes noun (stalk of a leaf)
- deilgoesyn noun (stalk of a leaf)
Sample sentences
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By contrast, the petioles of large pinnate leaves, as well as stems, typically resist torsion by placing stiff materials with high elastic moduli (like sclerenchyma) toward the perimeters of their cross sections.
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An example of this is leaf petioles. Some species of trees have pinnate leaves which, when the leaves fall, shed pinnae from the petiole, which is then left as a tapering, somewhat flexible rod.
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