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Pleiophyllous :: Pleiophyllous (a.) Having several leaves; -- used especially when several leaves or leaflets appear where normally there should be only one.

Quinquefoliated :: Quinquefoliated (a.) Having five leaves or leaflets.

Pinnated :: Pinnated (a.) Consisting of several leaflets, or separate portions, arranged on each side of a common petiole, as the leaves of a rosebush, a hickory, or an ash. See Abruptly pinnate, and Illust., under Abruptly..

Pinna :: Pinna (n.) A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate..

Unifollilate :: Unifollilate (a.) Having only one leaflet, as the leaves of the orange tree..

Pecopteris :: Pecopteris (n.) An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.

Petiolule :: Petiolule (n.) A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet..

Polytomous :: Polytomous (a.) Subdivided into many distinct subordinate parts, which, however, not being jointed to the petiole, are not true leaflets; -- said of leaves..

Bifoliolate :: Bifoliolate (a.) Having two leaflets, as some compound leaves..

Interrupted :: Interrupted (a.) Irregular; -- said of any arrangement whose symmetry is destroyed by local causes, as when leaflets are interposed among the leaves in a pinnate leaf..

Hexaphyllous :: Hexaphyllous (a.) Having six leaves or leaflets.

Leaflet :: Leaflet (n.) A leaflike organ or part; as, a leaflet of the gills of fishes..

Biternate :: Biternate (a.) Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets..

Multijugate :: Multijugate (a.) Having many pairs of leaflets.

Leafet :: Leafet (n.) A leaflet.

Leaflet :: Leaflet (n.) A little leaf; also, a little printed leaf or a tract..

Trifoliolate :: Trifoliolate (a.) Having three leaflets.

Tergeminate :: Tergeminate (a.) Thrice twin; having three pairs of leaflets.

Jugum :: Jugum (n.) A pair of the opposite leaflets of a pinnate plant.

Bigeminate :: Bigeminate (a.) Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a decompound leaf..

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