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sub- +‎ petiolar

Adjective

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subpetiolar (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Concealed within the base of the petiole.
    The leaf buds of the plane tree are subpetiolar.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 subpetiolar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)