petiole sentence examples

• Petiole of the leaf is more difficult to interpret.
• With this change, great durability is probably acquired; at least this is the case with the clasped petioles of clematis vitalba.
• The main petiole bends a little angularly downwards at each point where a pair of leaflets arises ( see fig.
• Petiole glands are little bumps that secrete nectar.
• Each bears three pairs of lateral leaflets and a terminal one, all supported on rather long sub- petioles.
• This movement of the leaves would aid that of the internodes in bringing the petioles into contact with surrounding objects.
• I gently rubbed with a thin twig the lower surfaces of two young petioles; and in 2 hrs.
• Straight, thin, black lines of this length were now drawn from the bases of the short petioles along the hypocotyls fig.
• The leaves are fan-shaped with parallel veins on long slender petioles.
• As soon as the confluent petioles protrude from the seed they bend down, as they are strongly geotropic, and penetrate the ground.
• Nevertheless they sufficed to attract the eye, when the whole petiole was viewed as a transparent object beneath the microscope.

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