Meaning

2 senses
  1. One of the spots upon a stem where buds and intercalary meristems occur, usually marking the end of a season's growth.

  2. A node, in a tree, that has no children.

More definitions
  • (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Ziri chopped the vine off close to the leaf node.

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Translations

1 languages

Forms

plural: leaf nodes
Singularleaf node
Pluralleaf nodes

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • (botany) the small swelling that is the part of a plant stem from which one or more leaves emerge:node

Word family

1 related words
Relatedinternode

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