It has lost the leaflets from its compound leaf, and a single one remains.
It requires no great exercise of imagination to understand how a lobed leaf, by deepening the sinuses between the lobes, might become a compound leaf in the process of evolution.
There may be no visible evidence that the box elder's leaf reached its present form by that process, but there is another maple which is at the present time developing a compound leaf in that way, or seems to be doing so.
One is three-lobed; the other is a compound leaf, the lobes having formed separate leaves.
The tendrils which form long spirals are generally modified stems or leaves, or they may be elongated leaflets of a compound leaf.
With several organs or structures attached at or proceeding from the same point; applied chiefly to the arrangement of principal veins in a leaf and of leaflets in a compound leaf.
The central axis of a spike or raceme of flowers or of a compound leaf.
Said of a compound leafin which the leaflets are borne at the apex of the petiole; finger-shaped.
The leaflets of a compound leaf may be either entire (as in Fig.
But when the pieces have no stalklets, and are not jointed with the main leaf-stalk, it may be considered either as a divided simple leaf, or a compound leaf, according to the circumstances.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compound leaf" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
