compound leaf

1. 1.

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

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Questions about compound leaf

What does compound leaf mean?

compound leaf means "a leaf composed of a number of leaflets on a common stalk".

Is compound leaf a common word?

compound leaf is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.