Word Meanings - PETIOLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade with the stem. See Illust. of Leaf.
Related words: (words related to PETIOLE)
- 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.