Petiole

Definition: Petiole

Petiole

Noun

1. The slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf.

Synonym: Petiole

Synonym: leafstalk (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Vegetable	Bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan; blow, blowth; floret, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

"Petiole" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Petiole" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	26	68,323

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "petiole"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		bisht i gjethes. (various references)

Arabic		‏سويقة (pedicel, stalk, stem). (various references)

Bulgarian		опашка (flapper, line, line up, queue, scut, stern, tail, tail end), дръжка (arm, bail, ear, grip, gripe, haft, handgrip, handle, helve, hold, lever, peduncle, pull, shank, stem, stock). (various references)

Danish		petiolus (peduncle), stilk (stalk, stem). (various references)

Dutch		petiolus (peduncle). (various references)

French		pétiole (peduncle). (various references)

German		Petiolus (peduncle), stiel (blade, broomstick, handle, helve, knob, peduncle, shaft, shank, stalk, stem, stud), stengel (blade, haulm, stalk, stem). (various references)

Greek		καυλός (peduncle), έχων μίσχον (petiolate), μίσχοσ φύλου, μίσχος (stem). (various references)

Hebrew		פטוטרת (stem). (various references)

Hungarian		levélnyél (leaf-stalk). (various references)

Italian		picciuolo (leafstalk), peduncolo (footstalk, peduncle), stelo (cane, haulm, stalk, stand, stem). (various references)

Manx		cass duillag. (various references)

Pig Latin		etiolepay

Portuguese		pedúnculo (footstep, peduncle, shank, stalk, stem), ratina (ratteen). (various references)

Romanian		peţiol (stalk). (various references)

Russian		черешок листа (leafstalk). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		peteljka (pedicel, pedicle, peduncle). (various references)

Spanish		petiolus (peduncle), pedículo (pediculus, peduncle), pecíolo (leafstalk, shank). (various references)

Swedish		bladstjälk, bladskaft. (various references)

Turkish		yaprak sapı (stalk). (various references)

Ukranian		черешок листка. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "petiole": petioled, petioles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Petiole" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: etiole, Pacioli, patiol, Pentillie, Pertelote, Pertile, petiolar, petoile, Petrioli, Pheidole, potile, Puteoli, Putilov. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "petiole" (pronounced 'Pet"i*ole'): Alepole, Alveole, Amphibole, Antipole, Arboricole, Areole, Armhole, Arteriole, Arvicole, Azarole, Azole, Bibliopole, Blowhole, Borecole, Bracteole, Bronchiole, Bunghole, Cabriole, Cajole, Camisole, Caprifole, Cariole, Carmagnole, Casserole, Cat-hole, Citole, Clycerole, Cole, Counterpole, Creephole, Dariole, Foliole, Fredstole, Fumarole, Fusarole, girandole, Gladiole, Gloriole, heart-whole, insole, keyhole, loophole, manhole, maypole, Mendole, Metropole, Mousehole, Mudhole, Nole, Nucleole. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-i-l-o-p-t"
	-1 letter: etoile, pelite, piolet, polite.
	-2 letters: elite, elope, pilot, teloi, toile, topee.
	-3 letters: leet, lept, lipe, lite, lope, loti, peel, pele, pelt, pile, plie, plot, poet, pole, teel, tele, tile, toil, tole, tope, topi.
	-4 letters: eel, lee, lei, let, lie, lip, lit, lop, lot, oil, ole, ope, opt, pee, pet, pie, pit, poi, pol, pot.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-i-l-o-p-t"
	+1 letter: lepidote, petioled, petioles, poetlike.
	+2 letters: depletion, diplotene, epistoler, exploited, exploiter, interlope, lepidotes, petiolate, petiolule, pistoleer, pointelle, politesse, repletion, sepiolite, terpineol.
	+3 letters: coleoptile, completive, depletions, diplotenes, epileptoid, epistolers, exploiters, exploitive, helicopted, helicopter, heliotrope, heterophil, incomplete, interloped, interloper, interlopes, lepidolite, leptospire, perfoliate, periosteal, peritoneal, petalodies, petiolules, pistoleers, pointelles, politeness, politesses, polytenies, potbellied, potbellies, prelection, projectile, repletions, sepiolites, telephonic, telescopic, teliospore, terpineols, thermopile.
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