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Perfoliate   Listen
adjective
Perfoliate  adj.  
1.
(Bot.) Having the basal part produced around the stem; said of leaves which the stem apparently passes directory through.
2.
(Zool.) Surrounded by a circle of hairs, or projections of any kind.





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"Perfoliate" Quotes from Famous Books



... only a friendly bumblebee can sip it. Less effective, but well worth a moment's examination, are the methods by which leaves are opposed as fences for the discouragement of thieves. Here, in a Bellwort, is a perfoliate leaf that encircles the stem upon which it grows; and there in a Honeysuckle is a connate leaf on much the same plan, formed of two leaves, stiff and strong, soldered at their bases. Sometimes the pillager meets prickles that sting him, ...
— Little Masterpieces of Science: - The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer • Various


Words linked to "Perfoliate" :   perfoliate leaf, unsubdivided, simple


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