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Plurifoliolate :: Plurifoliolate (a.) Having several or many leaflets.

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

Endecaphyllous :: Endecaphyllous (a.) Composed of eleven leaflets; -- said of a leaf.

Quadrijugous :: Quadrijugous (a.) Pinnate, with four pairs of leaflets; as, a quadrijugous leaf..

Fo''liolate :: Fo'liolate (a.) Of or pertaining to leaflets; -- used in composition; as, bi-foliolate..

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..

Fingered :: Fingered (a.) Having leaflets like fingers; digitate.

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

Palmated :: Palmated (a.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers..

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

Quiname :: Quiname (a.) Growing in sets of five; -- said especially of leaves composed of five leaflets set at the end of a common petiole.

Trijugate :: Trijugate (a.) In three pairs; as, a trijugate leaf, or a pinnate leaf with three pairs of leaflets..

Tripinnate :: Tripinnate (a.) Having bipinnate leaflets arranged on each side of a rhachis.

Trifoliated :: Trifoliated (a.) Having three leaves or leaflets, as clover. See Illust. of Shamrock..

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

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

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

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..

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

Digitated :: Digitated (a.) Having several leaflets arranged, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation..

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