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Keywords: midrib, lobes, leaf, blade, distinct

Cut into distinct parts, by incisions which reach the midrib; -- said of a leaf.

a. (L. dividere, to divide) referring to the blade of an appendage when it is cut into distinct divisions to, or almost to, the midvein.

When a leaf is cut or indented to the midrib or base of the blade, it is considered divided.

Leaves which have separate leaflets or have divisions between lobes that extent to near the leaf stem.

Cut into more than one distinct part.

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A plant structure that is cut into distinct parts; used to describe leaves. Go Back

leaf blade not entire but not compound (many oaks)

Deeply lobed when applied to leaves; separated to the base into divisions.

Separations in the leaf which often run to the base of the leaf.

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Keywords: serrated, parent, term

Parent Term: Serrated

Keywords: midline, reverse, post

reverse has a midline (post-1907).

Keywords: disunited, distributed, basis, portions, equal

Parted; disunited; distributed.

distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose

Keywords: cleft, mid, nerve, base

Cleft to the base or to the mid-nerve.

Keywords: median, highway, lanes, island, strip

having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions; "a divided highway"

Keywords: opinions, separated, pieces, parts

separated into parts or pieces; "opinions are divided"