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adj. - Of a leaf shape.

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  • In some few instances the calyx is not at all altered, but the carpellary leaf is trifoliolate, or even quinquefoliolate, the corolla being then absent.
  • It had produced seven ascidia in all, each formed by the conversion of one leaflet on the trifoliolate leaves.
  • In summer the range is wider, and besides many trifoliolate leaves the curiously shaped seven-bladed ones are not at all rare.
  • They are most marked among leguminous plants, as shown by the trifoliolate leaves of the thorn-broom and allies, which in the adult state have green twigs destitute of...
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