Usually means: Stalk attaching leaf blade, stem.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word petiole:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. petiole: Merriam-Webster
  2. petiole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. petiole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. petiole: Collins English Dictionary
  5. petiole: Vocabulary.com
  6. petiole: Wordnik
  7. Petiole: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. petiole: Wiktionary
  9. petiole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. petiole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. petiole: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. petiole: Dictionary.com
  13. petiole: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Petiole (botany), Petiole (insect), Petiole (insect anatomy), Petiole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Petiole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. petiole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. petiole: Rhymezone
  18. Petiole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. petiole: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. petiole: FreeDictionary.org
  21. petiole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. petiole: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Petiole (botany), petiole: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. petiole: Medical dictionary

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. petiole: Glossary of Common Tree Terms
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  4. petiole: Rhododendron Glossary
  5. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  6. Petiole: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia
  7. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

(Note: See petioled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (petiole)

noun:  (botany) The stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem.
noun:  (entomology, insect anatomy) A narrow or constricted segment of the body of an insect; especially, the metasomal segment of certain Hymenoptera, such as wasps.
noun:  (entomology) The stalk at the base of the nest of the paper wasp.

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