perfoliate leaf

1. 1.

   a leaf with the base united around--and apparently pierced by--the stem

   Broadersimple leaf

Questions about perfoliate leaf

What does perfoliate leaf mean?

perfoliate leaf means "a leaf with the base united around--and apparently pierced by--the stem".

Is perfoliate leaf a common word?

perfoliate 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.