Usually means: Leaf with multiple distinct leaflets.
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  1. compound leaf: Merriam-Webster
  2. compound leaf: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. compound leaf: Collins English Dictionary
  4. compound leaf: Vocabulary.com
  5. compound leaf: Wordnik
  6. compound leaf: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. compound leaf: Wiktionary
  8. compound leaf: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. compound leaf: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. compound leaf: Dictionary.com
  11. Compound leaf: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. compound leaf: Rhymezone
  13. compound leaf: FreeDictionary.org
  14. compound leaf: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. compound leaf: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. compound leaf: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. compound leaf: Glossary of Common Tree Terms
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  3. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (compound leaf)

▸ noun:  (botany) A leaf that has a fully subdivided blade, therefore having leaflets.

Similar:
angle leaf, bileaflet, cloverleaf, bifolio, monophylly, bilobate, polyphylly, polycot, dichotomy, trifoliate, more...

Opposite:
simple leaf, undivided leaf, unifoliate leaf

Types:
pinnate, palmate, paripinnate, bipinnate, more...

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Similar:
angle leaf, bileaflet, cloverleaf, bifolio, monophylly, bilobate, polyphylly, polycot, dichotomy, trifoliate, more...

Opposite:
simple leaf, undivided leaf, unifoliate leaf

Types:
pinnate, palmate, paripinnate, bipinnate, more...



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