Usually means: Leaf base swelling controlling movement.
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  1. pulvinus: Merriam-Webster
  2. pulvinus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pulvinus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pulvinus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pulvinus: Wordnik
  6. pulvinus: Wiktionary
  7. pulvinus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. pulvinus: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. pulvinus: Dictionary.com
  10. Pulvinus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. pulvinus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pulvinus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. pulvinus: Medical dictionary

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  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pulvinus)

noun:  (botany) A joint on a plant leaf or petiole that may swell and cause movement of the leaf or leaflet.

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