COMPOUND LEAF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does compound leaf mean? 

• COMPOUND LEAF (noun)
  The noun COMPOUND LEAF has 1 sense:

1. a leaf composed of a number of leaflets on a common stalk

  Familiarity information: COMPOUND LEAF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPOUND LEAF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A leaf composed of a number of leaflets on a common stalk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("compound leaf" is a kind of...):

foliage; leaf; leafage (the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "compound leaf"):

trifoliolate leaf (having three leaflets)

quinquefoliate leaf (a compound leaf having five leaflets)

palmate leaf (a leaf resembling an open hand; having lobes radiating from a common point)

pinnate leaf (a leaf resembling a feather; having the leaflets on each side of a common axis)

decompound leaf (a leaf having divisions that are themselves compound)