phyllocladium

English

Etymology

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Noun

phyllocladium (plural phyllocladia)

(botany) A flattened stem or branch that more or less resembles a leaf, and performs the function of a leaf as regards respiration and assimilation.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “phyllocladium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)