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Word Meanings - PETIOLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.

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  • CONNECTOR
    One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
  • ILLUSTROUS
    Without luster.
  • CONNECTIVELY
    In connjunction; jointly.
  • ILLUSTRIOUS
    1. Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl. 2. Characterized by greatness, nobleness, etc.; eminent; conspicuous; distinguished. Illustrious earls, renowened
  • CONNECTEDLY
    In a connected manner.
  • ILLUSTRATIVELY
    By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne.
  • ILLUSTRATIVE
    1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious.
  • CONNECTIVE
    Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection. Connection tissue See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.
  • ILLUSTRIOUSNESS
    The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.
  • ILLUSTRATION
    1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
  • BLADEFISH
    A long, thin, marine fish of Europe ; the ribbon fish.
  • BLADE
    The principal rafters of a roof. Weale. 6. pl. (more info) Dan., & Sw. blad, Icel. bla, OHG. blat, G. blatt, and perh. to L. folium, Gr. . The root is prob. the same as that of AS. bl, E. blow, 1. Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of
  • ILLUSTRIOUSLY
    In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously. Milton.
  • BLADEBONE
    The scapula. See Blade, 4.
  • ILLUSTRATE
    1. To make clear, bright, or luminous. Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky. Chapman. 2. To set in a clear light; to exhibit distinctly or conspicuously. Shak. To prove him, and illustrate his high worth. Milton. 3. To make clear,
  • BLADESMITH
    A sword cutler.
  • CONNECT
    Etym: 1. To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or relation between. He fills, he bounds, connect and equals all. Pope. A man must the connection of each
  • LEAFSTALK
    The stalk or petiole which supports a leaf.
  • ILLUSTRATOR
    One who illustrates.
  • BLADED
    Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife. (more info) 1. Having a blade or blades; as a two-bladed knife. Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass. Shak. 2. Divested of blades; as, bladed corn.
  • DISCONNECT
    To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse. The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality. Burke. This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious
  • DISCONNECTION
    The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
  • DELTA CONNECTION
    One of the usual forms or methods for connecting apparatus to a three-phase circuit, the three corners of the delta or triangle, as diagrammatically represented, being connected to the three wires of the supply circuit.
  • TWYBLADE
    See TWAYBLADE
  • TWAYBLADE
    Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two
  • INCONNECTION
    Disconnection.

 

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