petiole

Questions about petiole

What does petiole mean?

petiole means "the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf".

How many syllables are in petiole?

petiole has 4 syllables and divides as pe-ti-o-le under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for petiole?

Close synonyms include leafstalk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is petiole a common word?

petiole 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.