Usually means: Leaf-like structure in ferns.
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▸ noun:  (botany) The frequently specialised or reduced leaf produced at the first node of a new shoot.

Similar:
prophyllum, hyperphyll, hypophyll, protophyll, acrophyll, seed leaf, phyllome, phyllon, megaphyll, bathyphyll, more...

Opposite:
epiphyll

Types:
frond, leaf, needle, blade, scale, more...

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Similar:
prophyllum, hyperphyll, hypophyll, protophyll, acrophyll, seed leaf, phyllome, phyllon, megaphyll, bathyphyll, more...

Opposite:
epiphyll

Types:
frond, leaf, needle, blade, scale, more...



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