peltationn.
/pɛlˈteɪʃn/, U.S. /pɛlˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ Botany.
Peltate condition; a peltate formation.
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1881 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 19 135 A similar peltation towards the extremity of the proximal expansion occurs in many of the leaves of Nepenthes phyllamphora.
1914 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 1 278 From the last it is readily separated by the deeply cordate leaves and absence of peltation.
1949 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 36 543/2 According to these workers primitive carpels show manifest peltation and develop in much the same manner as does a peltate leaf.
1980 Botanische Jahrbücher 101 471 (heading) Morphology of the compound leaf in the Fabaceae: rachis subunifaciality, stipels and leaflet peltation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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