Petiole is an English word with synonyms like stalk or stem. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Petiole meaning
- The stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem.
- A narrow or constricted segment of the body of an insect; especially, the metasomal segment of certain Hymenoptera, such as wasps.
- The stalk at the base of the nest of the paper wasp.
Using Petiole
- The main meaning on this page is: The stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem. | A narrow or constricted segment of the body of an insect; especially, the metasomal segment of certain Hymenoptera, such as wasps. | The stalk at the base of the nest of the paper wasp.
- Useful related words include: leafstalk, stalk, stem.
- In the example corpus, petiole often appears in combinations such as: the petiole, petiole and.
Context around Petiole
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Petiole
- In this selection, "petiole" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, stalk, distinctive, forms, widens and stalk stand out and add context to how "petiole" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a distinctive petiole and reticulate and a stalk petiole and a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "petiole" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with petiole
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The petiole is convert long. (5 words)
The leaves are often unsheathed at the base, have a distinctive petiole and reticulate veined lamina. (16 words)
Plants in this genus have showy, often intensely bright flowers, and rounded, peltate ( shield -shaped) leaves with the petiole in the centre. (22 words)
Bananas grow in a wide variety of soils, as long as the soil is at least 60 cm deep, has good drainage and is not compacted.sfn The leaves of banana plants are composed of a "stalk" ( petiole ) and a blade ( lamina ). (42 words)
The petioles and leaves are removed and harvested; celery is packed by size and quality (determined by colour, shape, straightness and thickness of petiole, stalk and midrib length and absence of disease, cracks, splits, insect damage and rot). (38 words)
The petiole forms a narrow waist between their mesosoma ( thorax plus the first abdominal segment, which is fused to it) and gaster (abdomen less the abdominal segments in the petiole). (30 words)
Example sentences (7)
The petiole forms a narrow waist between their mesosoma ( thorax plus the first abdominal segment, which is fused to it) and gaster (abdomen less the abdominal segments in the petiole).
Bananas grow in a wide variety of soils, as long as the soil is at least 60 cm deep, has good drainage and is not compacted.sfn The leaves of banana plants are composed of a "stalk" ( petiole ) and a blade ( lamina ).
Plants in this genus have showy, often intensely bright flowers, and rounded, peltate ( shield -shaped) leaves with the petiole in the centre.
The base of the petiole widens to form a sheath; the tightly packed sheaths make up the pseudostem, which is all that supports the plant.
The leaves are often unsheathed at the base, have a distinctive petiole and reticulate veined lamina.
The petiole is convert long.
The petioles and leaves are removed and harvested; celery is packed by size and quality (determined by colour, shape, straightness and thickness of petiole, stalk and midrib length and absence of disease, cracks, splits, insect damage and rot).
Common combinations with petiole
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: