peltate leaf

1. 1.

   a shield-shaped leaf; as a nasturtium leaf

   Broadersimple leaf

Questions about peltate leaf

What does peltate leaf mean?

peltate leaf means "a shield-shaped leaf; as a nasturtium leaf".

Is peltate leaf a common word?

peltate 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.