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phylloclade Bot.|ˈfɪləʊkleɪd|
[ad. mod.L. phyllocladium (fɪləʊˈkleɪdɪəm) (also in Eng. use), f. Gr. ϕύλλον leaf + κλάδος branch.]
A branch of an enlarged or flattened form, resembling or performing the functions of a leaf, as in Butcher's Broom or the Cactaceæ.
1858Mayne Expos. Lex., Phyllocladium,..a term proposed by Bischoff for the Phyllodium, produced by a branch enlarged and flattened in the form of a leaf. 1883Athenæum 3 Mar. 283/3 There is a curious Exocarpus with phyllocladia. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 301 This arrangement is found..also in the phylloclades of Ruscus and Myrsiphyllum. 1897Willis Flower. Pl. I. 181 Stems..with long shoots transformed into flat green expansions, which act as leaves, whilst the true leaves are reduced to scales..are termed phylloclades.
Hence phylloˈcladioid a. [-oid], resembling a phylloclade (in quot. misused as if = having phylloclades); phyˈllocladous a. [-ous], having phylloclades.
1883Jrnl. Linn. Soc., Bot. XX. 249 A phyllocladioid Exocarpus..an oblanceolate thick rigid phylloclade. 1895Kerner & Oliver Nat. Hist. Plants I. 334 The most striking forms of phyllocladous plants. |