petiole
The stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem.
Other meanings
A narrow or constricted segment of the body of an insect; especially, the metasomal segment of certain Hymenoptera, such as wasps.
The stalk at the base of the nest of the paper wasp.
A kind of
- stalk
Related words
- petiolated
- petioled
- petiolule
- pseudopetiole
- petiolar
- petiolary
- postpetiole
Word history
From Latin "pēs" (foot).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “petiole” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.