petioles

Meaning of petioles

noun
  1. The stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem.
  2. (insect anatomy) A narrow or constricted segment of the body of an insect; especially, the metasomal segment of certain Hymenoptera, such as wasps.
  3. The stalk at the base of the nest of the paper wasp.

Information about petioles

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of petioles is: petiole.
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Hyphenation of petioles

peti-oles

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • petioles is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

petioles synonyms

Meaning :

pedicel

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