perfoliate : Idioms & Phrases

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connate-perfoliate

Con"nate-per*fo"li*ate adjective
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset.
Webster 1913

perfoliate leaf

  • noun a leaf with the base united around--and apparently pierced by--the stem
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