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Compound leaf   /kˈɑmpaʊnd lif/   Listen
Compound leaf

noun
1.
A leaf composed of a number of leaflets on a common stalk.



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"Compound leaf" Quotes from Famous Books



... beautiful in both form and colour, and withal exquisitely scented, like peach blossom and lilac. The leaves are stalked bipinnate; leaflets three-parted, cut, and glaucous; there are few plants with more handsome foliage, and its beauty is further enhanced by the gracefully bending habit of the whole compound leaf. The flowers are too stiff for cutting, and otherwise their fine forms, colours, and perfume cannot well be enjoyed unless the plants are grown either in pots or at suitable elevations on rockwork, the latter being the more preferable way. The long blooming period of this ...
— Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers - Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, - Rockeries, and Shrubberies. • John Wood



Words linked to "Compound leaf" :   leaf, palmate leaf, foliage, leafage, trifoliolate leaf, pinnate leaf, decompound leaf, quinquefoliate leaf



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