NOUN
- a reduced or scarcely developed leaf at the start of a plant's life (i.e., cotyledons) or in the early stages of leaf development
How To Use cataphyll In A Sentence
- External cataphylls of lateral winter buds were round and coriaceous.
- Under ordinary circumstances, the sepals may be considered as the representatives of the sheath of the leaf (cataphyllary) or of the blade Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- Of this latter nature are the "cataphyllary" leaves which invest the root stocks of so many perennial plants, the perulæ of leaf-buds, or the paleæ on the common receptacle of composite flowers. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
