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Partial :: Partial (n.) Pertaining to a subordinate portion; as, a compound umbel is made up of a several partial umbels; a leaflet is often supported by a partial petiole..

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

Scar :: Scar (n.) A mark left upon a stem or branch by the fall of a leaf, leaflet, or frond, or upon a seed by the separation of its support. See Illust.. under Axillary..

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

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

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

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

Leafet :: Leafet (n.) A leaflet.

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..

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

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

Tetraphyllous :: Tetraphyllous (a.) Having four leaves; consisting of four distinct leaves or leaflets.

Bijugate :: Bijugate (a.) Having two pairs, as of leaflets..

Five-leaved :: Five-leaved (a.) Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper..

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

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

Imparipinnate :: Imparipinnate (a.) Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet.

Three-leaved :: Three-leaved (a.) Consisting of three distinct leaflets; having the leaflets arranged in threes.

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

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

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