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Compound
Plants; Botany

Of a leaf, having the blade divided into two or more distinct leaflets; of an inflorescence, made up of an aggregate of smaller inflorescences.

Peltate
Plants; Botany

Of a leaf, having the stalk attached to the lower surface of the blade, not to the margin (also applied, in the same sense, to other stalked structures).

Palmatifid
Plants; Botany

Of a leaf, deeply divided into several lobes which arise (almost) at the same level. Cf. Pinnatifid.

Palmate
Plants; Botany

Of a leaf, divided into several leaflets which arise at the same point.

Pentamerous
Plants; Botany

Of a flower, having five parts in each floral whorl (not necessarily including the gynoecium).

Zygomorphic
Plants; Botany

Of a flower or calyx or corolla, symmetrical about one plane only, usually the plane that bisects the flower vertically. Cf. Actinomorphic.

Throat
Plants; Botany

Of a corolla tube, the top, where the tube joins the lobes.

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