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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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decompound leaf


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"Compound leaf" Quotes from Famous Books



... busy supplying food to the growing plant. The little growing tip lengthens into a stem from which a leaf is seen unfolding. This new leaf is not shaped like the embryo-leaves nor like the seed-leaves. It has three leaflets. The stem continues to lengthen, and soon another compound leaf appears. Thus the stem lengthens and leaves keep coming, the little growing tip at the end of the ...
— The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young • Margaret Warner Morley


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


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