Phyllodium

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  • n. A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually with vertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany, a petiole which usurps the form and function of a leaf-blade, as in many species of Acacia.
    • Word Usage
    "To this species may perhaps be referred Cassia linearis of Cunningham MS., discovered by him in 1817, but which appears to differ in having a single prominent gland about the middle of its phyllodium: Bentham's plant being entirely eglandular."
     
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