Word Meanings - PETIOLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.

Related words: (words related to PETIOLE)

• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• ILLUSTROUS
  Without luster.
• CONNECTIVELY
  In connjunction; jointly.
• ILLUSTRIOUS
  1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened
• CONNECTEDLY
  In a connected manner.
• ILLUSTRATIVELY
  By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne.
• ILLUSTRATIVE
  1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious.
• CONNECTIVE
  Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
• ILLUSTRIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.
• ILLUSTRATION
  1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
• BLADEFISH
  A long, thin, marine fish of Europe ; the ribbon fish.
• BLADE
  The principal rafters of a roof. Weale. 6. pl. (more info) Dan., & Sw. blad, Icel. bla, OHG. blat, G. blatt, and perh. to L. folium, Gr. . The root is prob. the same as that of AS. bl, E. blow, 1. Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of
• ILLUSTRIOUSLY
  In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously. Milton.
• BLADEBONE
  The scapula. See Blade, 4.
• ILLUSTRATE
  1. To make clear, bright, or luminous. Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky. Chapman. 2. To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously. Shak. To prove him, and illustrate his high worth. Milton. 3. To make clear,
• BLADESMITH
  A sword cutler.
• CONNECT
  Etym: 1. To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each
• LEAFSTALK
  The stalk or petiole which supports a leaf.
• ILLUSTRATOR
  One who illustrates.
• BLADED
  Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife. (more info) 1. Having a blade or blades; as a two-bladed knife. Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass. Shak. 2. Divested of blades; as, bladed corn.
• DISCONNECT
  To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
• DISCONNECTION
  The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
• DELTA CONNECTION
  One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
• TWYBLADE
  See TWAYBLADE
• TWAYBLADE
  Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two
• INCONNECTION
  Disconnection.