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petiole

noun
/ˈpɛti.əʊl/UK/ˈpɛti.oʊl/US

Etymology

Borrowed from French pétiole, and its source, Late Latin petiolus (“little foot”), diminutive form of Latin pēs (“foot”).

  1. derived from pēs — “foot”
  2. derived from petiolus
  3. borrowed from pétiole

Definitions

  1. The stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem.

    • Most insects consume tissue from the leaf blade were measured just past the twist on the side away only, leaving the leaf petioles unscathed.
    • 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.
    • 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.

  2. A narrow or constricted segment of the body of an insect

    A narrow or constricted segment of the body of an insect; especially, the metasomal segment of certain Hymenoptera, such as wasps.

  3. The stalk at the base of the nest of the paper wasp.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA