单词 | leaf scale |
释义 | > as lemmasleaf scale leaf scale n. Botany a scale on a plant stem which develops into a leaf; a small colourless, membranous, or otherwise scale-like modified leaf, such as those protecting a bud or forming part of a bulb (= scale-leaf n. at scale n.2 Compounds 1d); (also) a microscopic structure on the surface of a leaf. ΚΠ 1787 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 2) II. 1005 Leaves floating, long, grass-like, blunt, from leaf-scales. 1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. i. ii. 26 Bulbs are named, according to the character of their leaf-scales, scaly or squamose. 1941 E. C. Jaeger Desert Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) 5 The leaf scales are in whorls of three. 2005 Daily Tel. 25 Aug. 21/1 (caption) A scanning electron microscope captures the epidermal leaf scales from the dorsal surface of an eleagnus. < as lemmas |
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