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A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.

Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.

A leaf, usually smaller than the true leaves of a plant, from the axil of which a flower stalk arises.

Any modified leaf, or scale, on a flower stalk or at the base of a flower.

An irregularly developed leaf at the base of the flower-stalk.

A floral leaf; a modified leaf in whose axil a flower arises; a hydrophyllium in Siphonophora; the distal exite of the sixth appendage of Apus.

n. [Latin] A small leaf or scale, from the axil of which a flower proceeds.